a question about multilingual babies

[Tamar & Yves]

Dear beachjade,
Thanks for the referals. In our case, multiligualism is a necessity,
so what's left is to find out how to supprt our son's acuisition of
those 4 languages more easily.

This is why we find your referal to studies on the psychological
aspects of it so helpful.

Thanks again,
Tamar & Yves

On 9 מאי, 02:25, beachjade <beachj... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Tamar and Yves,
>
> There is a recent paper by Janet Werker that may be relevant to your second
> question about how early should you expose your child to his many languages.
>  In contrast to an earlier response to your post, my reading of the
> literature suggests that bilingualism/multilingualism in an of itself is not
> a risk factor in development.  This is echoed by
>
> http://www.lsadc.org/info/pdf_files/Bilingual.pdf
>
> <http://www.lsadc.org/info/pdf_files/Bilingual.pdf>http://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/pspi/pspi_10_3.pdf
>
> <http://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/pspi/pspi_10_3.pdf>http://www.psychologicalscience.org/media/releases/2010/werker.cfm
>
> On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Tamar & Yves <tama... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hello all,
> > Our 10 months old son is exposed to 3 languages at home ( each one of
> > us is speaking to him his mother- tongue, and we speak English between
> > us) and to a 4th one outside.
>
> > Soon he will be starting Nursery, and we were wondering what language
> > it should be in. Is it better to expose him simultaneously to all 4
> > languages or should we do it gradually over the first few years of his
> > life (It's possible to sign him up to a nursery in my husnband's
> > mother tongue (2)/ english (3)/ bi lingual (enviroment+English)(4))
>
> > We don't want language acquisition to be too much of a burden on him,
> > and not sure how many languages he can learn at once.
>
> > We are aware of the large number of factors affecting the answer, but
> > does anyone know or refer us to research done on the specific issues
> > of (i) number of languages babies can learn and its implication on
> > their emotional state; and (ii) Is it better to expose a baby to those
> > languages simultaneously or gradually over the first few years of his
> > life.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Tamar & Yves
>
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