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Growing Up with Two Languages: A Practical Guide (Paperback)

by Staffan Andersson (Author), Una Cunningham-Andersson (Author)
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  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Routledge; 2 edition (26 Feb 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0415333326
  • ISBN-13: 978-0415333320
  • Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 13.7 x 1.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 149,282 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'This book is a valuable read which raises fascinating issues based on real life experiences; useful for parents promoting their children's ability to become fully conversant in the two main languages of their heritage and also to anyone studying children's linguistic development and emergent bilingualism.' - Avril Brock, Bradford College

Praise for first edition:
'A well-written and comprehensible guidebook ... offers readers the basic concepts of bilingualism and practical suggestions for the problems that naturally arise in everyday life.'
- International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

'Every family with two languages should have this book.' - The Bilingual Family Newsletter

'This outstanding collection of the key articles in the field is an essential guide for incoming students and a wonderful resource for bilingualism scholars.' - Annotated Bibliography for English Studies

'A book like this is decades overdue. ... Growing Up with Two Languages is an excellent guide for working through day-to-day issues of bilingual parenting and long-term strategies for dealing with such fundamental issues as children's cultural identity and social comfort.' - Naomi S. Baron, American University, Washington

In ^Growing up With Two Languages Una Cunningham-Andersson and Staffan Andersson provide a highly accessible account of the stages of language development, describe and evaluate the various systems and strategies that can be adopted and look at the problems that can occur when a child is exposed to two language and cultures.

The book is illustrated throughout with the real life experiences of fifty families around the world and concludes with clear practical advice on how to support and document a child's bilingual development and how to make the most of the internet.

'Every family with two languages should have this book!' - Stephen Ryan, The Bilingual Family Newsletter

'It's wonderful that this excellent resource for multilingual families has been updated. The original edition sits on a shelf at home with other well-worn companions of my early childrearing days, and I find it somehow comforting to know that the authors' children have - like my own sons - grown older, giving their parents not only new insights, but a renewed conviction that the multilingual path they chose for their family was the right one.' - Marina Zvetina, Board member, ImF - Interest Group for Multilingual Families in Germany

'Every family with two languages should have this book!' - Stephen Ryan, The Bilingual Family Newsletter


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Illustrated throughout with the real life experiences of fifty families around the world, this second edition of this bestselling book is for anyone - parents, teachers and language professionals alike - who need advice on how children can get the most from a bilingual situation.

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44 of 45 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars A good introduction to the topic of biligualism, 29 Sep 2001
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Good points: easy to read with many useful suggestions. Very up to date with a number of useful web site addresses.

Bad points: possibly a bit too simplistic and very general. More focused on families where English is the minority language.

I found 'The Biligual Family'by Harding and Riley more useful but it is more academic and has slightly different goals from this book.

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53 of 56 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars good, but didn't meet my needs, 18 April 2003
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This is a really good book if you're an English speaker, living in a country where English isn't spoken at all. There are lots of really interesting case studies and examples of how families cope with bilingualism.
However, it didn't meet my needs - we are a family living in Wales, where one parent speaks English as a first language, and the other speaks Welsh as a first language. Our situation may not be commonplace, but I didn't find the help I was looking for in this book.
I found Colin Baker's book 'A Parent's and Teacher's guide to bilingualism' met our needs more fully.
Some really good resources and web-site addresses though.
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15 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A good book to buy, 7 Jan 2001
By andrea.luciano@icteam.it (Treviglio (BG), Italy) - See all my reviews
This book is very good. I needed something that could give me examples of growing up children with two languages. The only thing that I had found before where negative answers. Here the authours talks about their experience and also about possibilities of different ways both in negative and positive matters. There are also lots of comments from another bilingual families. Their family is Swedish/English living in Sweden, where people understand English, instead mine is Icelandic/Italian one living in Italy. Where people actually say that are you bothering using Icelandic. I didn't find lots of hints for us which have a minor languages just spooken by one person without dialogues except the kids.
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