Should You Talk to Your Child in a Different Language? (fwd link)

[Jessica Nelson]

Great article, thanks for posting!

Jessica

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Phil Cash Cash <weyiiletpu at gmail.com> wrote:
> A BLOG ABOUT LANGUAGE
> OCT. 8 2014 1:23 PM
>
> Should You Talk to Your Child in a Different Language?
>
> By Claire Bowern
>
>
> New parents face a lot of pressures. Until I became a parent myself, I
> didn’t realize the sea of conflicting advice that besieges parents on
> everything from feeding strategies to whether you need a baby Jacuzzi.
>
> One of the more important decisions is what language bilingual parents will
> speak to their child. It’s natural to want the best for one’s child, and
> also to draw on one’s own childhood in parenting, but what if you speak a
> second language less fluently, one that you learned as an adult? Is it worth
> speaking your less fluent second language to your kid?
>
> Access full article below:
>
> http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2014/10/08/raising_bilingual_kids_should_you_speak_to_children_in_your_second_language.html



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Jessica Fae Nelson
PhD student, Linguistic Anthropology
School of Anthropology
University of Arizona
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