Language Strategies for Bilingual Families

[Fred Genesee]

Nitya:

Johanne Paradis, Martha Crago and I have just published a book with Brookes
Publishers on Dual Language Development and Disorders (to appear in July
2004). It will probably answer many of your questions.

Fred Genesee

At 10:25 AM 08/06/2004 -0500, Nitya Sethuraman wrote:
>Hello,
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>I was interested in the recent book announcement posted to the list on
>language strategies used by bilingual families.  The book focuses on the
>one-person, one-language strategy.  This strategy seems to be the one most
>discussed in the literature, and I was wondering whether there was some
>guided reason for this (there is a consensus that this is the "best"
>strategy) or if it was for some other reason (it's the easiest strategy to
>study, most traditionally studied, etc.)?
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>If you know of good articles and books, academic or more general, that
>compare various strategies parents use for raising their children
>bilingually, please email me or the list, and I will post a summary.
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>Thanks,
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>Nitya Sethuraman
>Postdoctoral Researcher
>Psychology
>Indiana University
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