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.
Multilingualism is often celebrated or emphasized as a gift or a superpower. Such descriptions emphasize the advantages of using multiple languages, they can also mislead people to falsely assume and expect it to be easy.
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.
Raising multilingual children is a rewarding yet complex journey. Parents play a pivotal role in shaping their children’s linguistic development, and one of the most effective ways to support this process is through parental discourse strategies (read also our post about 4 parental discourse strategies). Techniques such as repetition, expansion, and recasting create a rich
What should parents know about raising multilingual kids in Denmark? When and how are children tested about their language skills? Find all the answers in this interview.