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.
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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 […]
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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.
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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.
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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 […]
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