Description:
This insightful, practical book can be used as a stand-alone guide for families on their language journey, or as an accompaniment to the author's successful seminars for families and schools. Learn from the author's extensive experience of helping and advising families on how to raise their children as successful bilinguals and multilinguals.
Brief description:
Eowyn Crisfield is founder and principal of Crisfield Educational Consulting and Senior Lecturer in TESOL at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She has delivered her family language planning programme and insights through seminars, family language planning consultations, school consultations and her onraisingbilingualchildren blog for over 15 years. Eowyn and her mostly-monolingual partner are raising three multilingual children...with varying degrees of success!
Review Quotes: This is a clear, engaging, and accessible guide for parents who are interested in raising their children with more than one language. Evidence-informed, yet simultaneously structured and written so as to truly facilitate parents' reflection and engagement, it offers practical and realistic advice. A must-read for any parent interested in bestowing the gift of language onto their children.