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There's good news and bad news. The good news is that there are a lot of bilingual education books. The bad news is, out of all these books only a small percentage are really good. I created this lens in order to facilitate you the search for the most helpful bilingual education books.

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Bilingual Education Books

"How-To" - Bilingual Education Books

Parents who decide to raise their children bilingual are mostly unsure and need some practical advice and encouragement. In this case, reading about others who have gone through this can be of high value to them. Here are some of the best guides with every detailed information you need when you are still at the beginning of creating a positive bilingual environment for your children.
  • Raising a Bilingual Child - This is a good self-help book for parents who are still somewhat unexperienced and insecure about the whole bilingual education issue. It gives good advice and encourages by using first-hand accounts from parents who have had the heart to make the step of raising their kids bilingual.
  • Make Your Child Multilingual - A very recommendable ebook/workbook by Silke Rehman, who speaks out of experience. Read / watch her very convincing review and get more info on multilingual & bilingual education here.
  • 7 Steps to Raising a Bilingual Child - Another very useful guide full of insightful anecdotes and powerful strategies. The author Dr. Steiner is a well-known and trusted expert in this field and helps you, among other things, understand what is going on in your child's head.
  • The Bilingual Edge: Why, When, and How to Teach Your Child a Second Language - Both authors of this book are linguistics professors, respectable experts in bilingualism and language teaching methods and they both are raising their own children bilingual. The book is very well written and most statements and examples are backed by scientific research.
  • The Bilingual Family: A Handbook for Parents
    - Again, a book written by professionals who have gone through this and write from their own experiences. They describe the different approaches and strategies and give tons of case studies that will help you understand the situations you will be confronted with when raising bilingual children.

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"About" - Bilingual Education Books

Sometimes just following a guide is not enough when it comes to the education of your beloved children and you need to really understand everything that stands behind these tips and all the advice you are given. If you want to understand the scientific backgrounds, the history and the whole theoretical aspects related to bilingualism and bilingual education, then these books could be of great help.
  • Foundations of Bilingual Education And Bilingualism - This is a best selling book that offers a very comprehensive overview for everything related to bilingual education and bilingualism.
  • Childhood Bilingualism: Research on Infancy Through School Age (Child Language and Child Development) - This great book reveals the outcomes of research on bilingualism in infants and children. It also contains perspectives from those involved in cross-linguistic research on language development, literacy development in bilingual children, and psycholinguistic research on bilingualism in adults.
  • Encyclopedia of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education - This very informative and comprehensive encyclopedia contains just about any piece of existing information about bilingualism and bilingual education.
  • Bilingualism (Language in Society) - This books reveals the different aspects of bilingual behavior such as code switching and language mixing. The author assesses the positive and negative claims made for the effects of bilingualism on children's cognitive, social and academic development. The book also and examines the assumptions behind various language policies and programs for bilingual children.
  • Bilingual Education in the 21st Century: A Global Perspective - This comprehensive book gives an informative overview of bilingual education at the levels of philosophy, policy, provision and practice. It has international relevance, global understandings and is suitable for a worldwide readership.

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By J. Zel Lurie DELRAY BEACK, FLORIDA ? Bilingual education has always attracted me. I built the first bilingual Hebrew-Arabic primary school for citizens of Israel a quarter century ago. Now there are five bilingual schools in Israel and more on the ...
Spanish expert sees snags for bilingual education in Puerto Rico
San Juan ? The academic director of Spain's Cervantes Institute noted here the problems involved in establishing public bilingual education in Puerto Rico, where Spanish is the mother tongue of the vast majority. Francisco Moreno, on a visit to Puerto ...
Oh, The Humanities!: Canada's language czars losing their voice
From crafting bilingual education kits that made their way into Canadian schools, to encouraging university presidents to instate second-language entrance or graduation requirements, to asking Air Canada and Via Rail if they would offer reduced-cost ...

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Bilingual Education Articles

Spanish expert sees snags for bilingual education in Puerto Rico
San Juan ? The academic director of Spain's Cervantes Institute noted here the problems involved in establishing public bilingual education in Puerto Rico, where Spanish is the mother tongue of the vast majority. Francisco Moreno, on a visit to Puerto ...
Audit finds flaws in University of Canberra standards
Vice-chancellor Stephen Parker went to China in January to try to find a quick way to fix the problem in its bilingual master of business administration program, a spokeswoman for the university said. UC said it had already made changes to education ...
District vows to preserve resources for bilingual education
By Robert Moran As the number of immigrant students and others with English-learning needs grows, Philadelphia School District leaders vowed Monday evening not to cut resources for bilingual education and related services despite continuing budget woes ...
Bilingual Fort Wayne charter school withdraws application
The school would have offered a bilingual education program, focusing on English and Spanish, for students in grades K-12. It would have located in the former Taylor University Fort Wayne campus on Rudisill Boulevard. Sun Academy would have been run by ...

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