Description:
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)
Brief description: Barbara Zurer Pearson is a bilingualism expert with more than thirty years of research experience, first at the University of Miami (FL) and then 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.