This post is primarily for parents wanting to raise bilingual children and educators in elementary immersion programs, but perhaps the rest of you will find something useful here as well. I have three children that I am trying to raise bilingual in Spanish. We started out fully committed to the one-parent, one-language method, in which […]
Stephen Krashen has done a ton of research on what he calls Free Voluntary Reading. Catch up on his research by checking it out on his website. Basically, the premise is that kids learn more (and language learners acquire more vocabulary) when reading at an appropriate leve and something that is pleasurable to them. I […]
There are an awful lot of people with good things to say about Krashen, and an awful lot of bad things to say about him. For a good, balanced summary of Krashen’s theories and some reactions, look here. Krashen was/is an advocate of bilingual education. I hate almost everything about bilingual education, particularly past 2nd […]
I read this article for a class called Issues in Bilingualism or something like that while I was in grad school. I remember exclaiming over and over as I read it, “That makes so much sense! That explains why…” My husband laughed at me getting so excited over a scholarly article. It has a lot […]