Raising A Bilingual Child - 3rd Edition by Barbara Zurer Pearson (Paperback)

About the Book

The perfect step-by-step guide for parents who want their young children to become bilingual. "It inspires confidence that the choice of bilingualism is a good one for parents, for children, and for our society." (D. Christian, Pres. CAL)

Book Synopsis

Raising a Bilingual Child, A step-by-step guide for parents

This readable guidebook prepares you for what to expect and what to do when you're parenting a bilingual-to-be. It also contains general background information that will take you beyond the how, to the why. The book provides you with solid scientific arguments for raising your child bilingually and outlines practical steps you can take to integrate two (or more) languages into your child's routine. It also includes many inspirational accounts from parents and childhood bilinguals. It dispels myths about bilingualism and explains how learning multiple languages at a young age can enhance your child's overall intellectual, emotional, and social development.

Barbara Zurer Pearson, Ph.D., is a bilingualism expert with more than thirty years of research experience in the fields of bilingualism and linguistics, first at the University of Miami (FL) and then at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her pioneering work on bilingual learning by infants and children and on language assessment has been published in scholarly journals and in the book Language and Literacy in Bilingual Children.

Review Quotes

"A timely and well-written book! . . . It is an invaluable resource for today's parents to help prepare

their children for the future. It provides clear, ...readable, and trustworthy guidelines they can use to help the child learn a second language [. . .]."

-J. Kevin Nugent, Professor, Child and Family Studies, University of

Massachusetts-Amherst, and Director, the Brazelton Institute, Children's

Hospital Boston and Harvard University

"Pearson . . . inspire[s] all of us to celebrate the richness of

linguistic diversity in our lives.... This book is sure to become a classic!..."

-Kenji Hakuta, Ph.D., Lee L. Jacks Professor of Education, Stanford

University, author of Mirror of Language: The Debate on Bilingualism

"Pearson has used her keen insights about the issues

that parents are concerned about to paint an in-depth and

interesting-to-read handbook."

-Fred Genesee, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, McGill University,

coauthor of Dual Language Instruction: A Handbook for Enriched Education

"Barbara Pearson's [book] is a wonderfully written, sparkling

composite of research results, personal narratives, practical advice,

and wise enthusiasm for the project of bilingualism [. . .]."

-Thomas Roeper, Ph.D., Professor of Linguistics,

University of Massachusetts, author of The Prism of Grammar

"I thoroughly agree with the author's insights and recommendations,

which are both research-based and fl exible and comprehensive

enough to accommodate different family situations."

-Lourdes C. Rovira, Ed.D., Associate Superintendent, Curriculum and

Instructional Support, Miami-Dade County Public Schools

"I enjoyed reading Raising a Bilingual Child and found

it informative and accessible."

-Chris Rosenberg, Principal, Starr King Elementary School, San Francisco

"This is a book that inspires confidence that the choice of bilingualism is a good one for parents, for children, and for our society."

---Donna Christian, Ph.D., President, Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington D.C.