Audio From Cultural Identity Model to Language Identity Model UIL I recently translated the Third Culture Model into a Third Language Model for multilinguals, and I want to share my translation of the Cultural Identity Model from D. Pollock and R. Van Reken, into my Language Identity Model©: (my design is inspired by the Cultural Identity […]
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Native Teachers or Non-Native Teachers – that’s NOT the question!
What is better a native speaker or a non-native speaker as language teacher for my child, or for me? Find out what to watch out for in this post.
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When learning languages, is the earlier the better?
Multilingual Parents are often keen to speak several languages with their children and can’t wait to introduce more languages. In the end: the sooner the better, right? Well, not really. If we shower our children with a lot of languages from early on, without them needing them it can become a challenge to maintain them. […]
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Multilingual Language Timelines
In our multilingual language timeline we can discover how many languages we have acquired or learned along the way.
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Dialects, standard languages and education
We all know that maintaining our mother tongue/father tongue, mother language/father language, heritage language is important to transmit our children a sense of belonging through this language, and to the culture that is attached to it. What if we want to transmit a dialect or regional variant? Especially families who raise their children abroad tend to […]
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