Writing Development in Simultaneous and Successive Bilingual Learners Writing is one of the most demanding skills children acquire because it requires thinking, language knowledge, motor skills, and cultural awareness to work together. For multilingual learners, this complexity increases further, as writing develops across languages with different structures, scripts, and conventions. Joan Sedita’s Writing Rope offers
When we speak about literacy development in multilingual families, we often picture clear, parallel progress across all languages: a child learns to read in one language, then transfers those skills into the next. However, real multilingual development unfolds in waves, sometimes accelerating in one language while temporarily pausing in another. The pattern of literacy development
Across the world, multilingual families are navigating rapidly changing linguistic landscapes. Children grow up in multicultural societies, in homes where several languages coexist, and in classrooms that reflect a global mosaic.
When you raise your children away from your homeland, you quickly realize that the task is not only to keep a language alive. For many of us, it is about passing on a whole world of feelings and identity.
September doesn’t just mean sharpened pencils and new routines, for multilingual children back to school often comes with extra layers of adjustment.
As the school year wraps up, many parents feel a mix of pride, relief, and exhaustion. But if you’re raising multilingual children abroad, this moment carries an extra layer, one that often goes unnoticed.
Many multilingual children experience a paradox: some may chat fluently in a new language but struggle academically, whilst others may grasp complex academic concepts yet find casual conversations about everyday topics difficult.
This is where four essential concepts – BICS (Basic Interpersonal Communicative Skills), CALP (Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency), CUP (Common Underlying Proficiency), and CALS (Core Academic Language Skills) – help us understand multilingual development and learning success.
Testing is crucial to every child’s journey in Dutch primary education. But what exactly do these tests entail? How are the results used, and how do they impact your child’s future? This article explains everything parents need to know about the M-test, E-test, and the final placement test.
Hos Multilingual Families er vores mission at styrke og støtte flersprogede familier, der bor i udlandet, ved at tilbyde ressourcer, ekspertvejledning og et støttende fællesskab. Vores mål er at fremme sprogudvikling, bevare kulturelle værdier og skabe forbindelser på tværs af forskellige sproglige baggrunde. Du kan finde en liste over danske ressourcer og undervisningsmaterialer her nedenfor.
On this page we share Greek resources that help families maintain Greek whilst living abroad. It is an ongoing list that we are always happy to update!