Bilingual children
Friends and family sometimes ask me about what they can do to raise their children bilingual. Here is the list of resources I usually share with them. Hope you find it helpful!
Books:
Manual:
Documentaries:
Testimonials:
Books:
- A parent's and Teacher's Guide to Bilingualism, by Colin Baker (preview on Google books)
- Multilingües desde la cuna, by Anna Solé Mena (preview on Google books) [in Spanish]
- Second Language Acquisition Myths: Applying Second Language Research to Classroom Teaching by Steven Brown and Jenifer Larson-Hall (more information)
Manual:
- How to raise a bilingual child/¿Cómo criar a un niño bilingüe? by Ana Celia Zentella et al. (download here) [bilingual edition]
Documentaries:
- La fuerza de Babel, by TVE (watch here) [in Spanish]
- Why do we talk? by BBC (watch here)
- Speaking in tongues (watch trailer here) [specific for bilingual schools]
- Neurolenguaje, by TVE (watch here) [in Spanish]
- Robots para saber cómo somos, by TVE (watch here) [in Spanish]
Testimonials:
- Interview to a bilingual dad (read here) [in Spanish]