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Talks for Talks for professionals working with bilingual children Australian Newsletter for Bilingual
Families Snippets for Bilingual Families Resources
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Parents and Carers (Re-)Introducing
a community language. In
the theoretical part of this talk,
Susanne will explore reasons for shifting from English to a community
language and effects of parental language shift on family relationships.
Information will be provided on the relationship between language use and
language learning and potential
effects of parental language shift on the child's cognition and
behaviour. In the practical part of this talk, parents will be guided through
preparing the child for the change, the setting of goals, useful activities
during the early stages and strategies for progressively incorporating the
community language into all parent-child interactions. This presentation
requires a minimum of 3 hours. Raising children
bilingually at home and at school. This
talk addresses issues in raising children bilingually beyond the early
preschool development. In particular it looks at bilingual children's cognitive and academic development
during the primary school years, the effect of 2nd language immersion
programs on school achievement, and the interface between home and school.
The talk is of interest to parents whose children already speak the language
of the intended immersion program as well as to parents who consider sending
their children to an immersion program with little or no previous language
skills. more back to previous page back
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language development through play in bilingual and monolingual homes This talk explores why playing is so powerful for
helping all children to develop language and why playing with our children is
particularly important when we want to pass on a language other than English
here in Australia. Play strategies will be explained and demonstrated, which
parents can try out as soon as they get home. Parents are encouraged to
participate in exchanging ideas and asking questions. more back to previous page back
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