Language Strategies for Bilingual Families: The One-Parent-One-Language Approach - Paperback

by Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert (Author)

This book provides an inspiring approach to passing on two or more languages to your children through a focus on the one-person one-language approach. The book is grounded in academic research, but is both readable and relevant to non-academics and provides fascinating insights into being a multilingual family.

Author Biography

Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert is on the Editorial Board of the Bilingual Family Newsletter. Married to a Frenchman with three young children she has direct experience of bringing up children with two or three languages. They have lived as an expatriate family in Hungry, Egypt and Switzerland. Suzanne trained as a teacher of English as a second language and taught adults and children in Japan and Poland. In 1999 she completed a Master's dissertation on trilingual families and continues to research bilingual and trilingual families.