Dutch education explained
Get an overview and explanation of the Dutch Education in this post by Genoveva Geppaart.
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How to Read Bilingual Books: for Teenagers and Adults
How to Read Bilingual Books: for Teenagers and Adults Bilingual books offer a unique opportunity for language learners, both teenagers and adults, to enhance their language skills, gain deeper cultural insights, and maintain their heritage language while acquiring a new one. However, reading bilingual books effectively requires more than just skimming through the text. It
Back home with your multilingual children? How to make it easy for you!
Here are my 2 cents or 5 tips about how to make our children’s full immersion experience in their home languages more effective and less stressful for us. You can also read the caption in the video should you not want to watch it with audio.
Challenges in Multilingualism – Navigating Language Dynamics in Multilingual Families
Being or becoming multilingual has numerous advantages, but it also comes with its fair share of challenges. Understanding and addressing these challenges is essential for successful language development and maintenance in multilingual families. Let’s look at some common challenges that arise in multilingual families and discuss strategies to overcome them. Language Dominance When
Can a country be too language friendly?
Icelandic society is very welcoming towards immigrants. The government helps newcomers, providing translators and mediators to them in order to smoothly adapt to the new reality. English is widespread in the country and used as the primary means of communication between newcomers and locals.
The Dominant Language Constellation Model to visualize our use of multiple languages
How multilinguals can adopt the Dominant Language Constellation to explain their language use.
Speech and Language Therapists and Multilinguals
In my practice as Language Consultant for Multilingual Families I sometimes refer families to speech and language therapists (SLT’s) when I think that the children need some professional support with their speech or language development. I can’t stress this enough, but SLT’s who work with multilingual children should have a solid understanding of the typical
The multilingual mindset
What is a multilingual mindset? In this article I share my definition of what it means and how we can develop and foster it.
Learning to read in multiple languages – The Reading Rope explained
There are many different approaches, theories and practices about how to start fostering reading skills, and they all differ across languages and cultures.
The Reading Rope by Hollis Scaraborough, a leading researcher of early language development and its connection to later literacy, is very helpful to illustrate what learning to read and becoming a skilled reader entails. But how does learning to read in one language differ from learning to read in several languages (almost) simultaneous differ?
A Multi-Literacy-Friendly Home
A Multi-Literacy-Friendly Home is a home where all languages are welcome and “visible”, “readable”.