How to raise a bilingual child
Use strategies from Speech and Language Therapy to develop your child's bilingualism
Description
Would you like to bring up your child bilingually? Are you raising a bilingual child but feel stuck, or would like to know more about how to do it? With this course, you will learn the key theoretical and practical knowledge to bring up a bilingual child, especially when you are the only one who speaks that language in your environment.
This course is aimed mainly at parents who are native speakers of a language but who live in an environment where another language is spoken, or who would like to teach their child a language they know well, even if they are not natives. The strategies can also be used by parents and teachers who are teaching a foreign language.
You will learn the key language intervention strategies used by Speech and Language pathologists and Teachers of the Deaf. These strategies are aimed at making the most of your interactions with your child. In this way, by using this type of intensive interaction, your child will get more out of the exposure to the language.
I will walk you through all the strategies I have learned in my training as a Teacher of the Deaf and Speech and Language Therapist, which I applied to bring up my kids bilingually as the sole Spanish speaker in our family - we live in the UK and the main language spoken at home is English.
This course is the fruit of love, for my children and the bilingual education they are receiving. I feel blessed to see how my dream of having bilingual children has come true, and I want to help others to experience the same success.
Bilingualism is a long journey. It takes time and effort. It is possible to become bilingual even in less-than-ideal circumstances, but if you are not in a perfectly bilingual environment, bringing up bilingual children does require some specialist skills. These skills are the ones you will learn in this course.
What You Will Learn!
- Language intervention strategies to develop bilingualism
- How to correct entrenched grammar errors
- Why it is crucial to focus on grammar and sounds early on
- How to provide appropriate support to their bilingual child
- Many different ideas to increase exposure to the new language
Who Should Attend!
- Bilingual parents/carers.
- Parents/carers who are teaching their child a foreign language.
- Education staff working in bilingual settings.