One Person, One Language

[Francis Hult]

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One Person, One Language

 

A popular method for teaching young children to speak multiple languages, the One Person, One Language system has both advantages and challenges for the bilingual family.

 

Jeff grew up speaking both Spanish and English. Caroline, speaks only English. They want their new baby to grow up bilingual, and they have chosen the "One Person, One Language" (OPOL) method of language learning to teach their son.

 

The OPOL method is one of the most widely used bilingual language learning systems in the world, according to Dr. Barbara Zurer Pearson in her book Raising a Bilingual Child [Living Language/Random House, 2008]. With OPOL, each parent speaks only the language that is native to that parent when communicating with the child. Children quickly learn to associate a particular language with the appropriate parent.

 

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