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Language Strategies for Bilingual Families: The One-Parent - One-Language Approach (Parents' and Teachers' Guides) | 
| Author: Suzanne Barron-hauwaert
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Ltd
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 177484
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 220
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 6.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 1853597147
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.446
EAN: 9781853597145
ASIN: 1853597147
Publication Date: July 2004
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 In desperate need of a proof reader ... May 27, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
As a language graduate and mother to two potentially bilingual children, I was very interested to read about the best strategies for achieving bilingualism. However, this book was so littered with horrendous spelling and grammar errors that I couldn't bring myself to read past the first chapter. This was a shame, as I am sure the content would have been both useful and informative. Surely a book written about language should contain a reasonable level of language itself. A poor standard of English will make the reader doubt the quality of the content. Please let me know when you have invested in a good proof reader and I will buy the next edition!
 worthwhile read January 19, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found this to be one of the better books on bringing up bilingual children and the one parent one language strategy seems to be working for our family (5,4,18m). I also liked the bilingual parents handbook (harding and riley) and raising multilingual children.
Not always the right approach June 17, 2005
27 out of 29 found this review helpful
The One Parent - One Language Approach is well defended by this book but I found it counter to my own excellent experience of both parents using both languages in conversation with myself and my sister. The point about attempting to be a bilingual family is to follow an approach best suited to the whole family situation. This book is trying to pursuade you of a single method. I would recommend instead that you read The Bilingual Family by Edith Harding-Esch and Philip Riley which offers questions to the parents about how they can create a bilingual family and find right approach for them. "The Bilingual Family" is not as prescriptive in its approach and I welcome that. I have colleagues who are married to persons from other countries, and I have recommended that they read "The Bilingual Family" rather than "Language Strategies for Bilingual Families: The One-Parent - One-Language Approach."
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