Raising Multilingual Children

Next Class	To be announced
Time	To be announced
Location	Küsnacht / ZH
Language acquisition and children. A practical guideline about how, when and what to do about language education pertinent to your personal situation.

Topics include:

-	Key factors in raising multilingual children	-	Family language strategies that work
-	Family language profile & goals	-	Enhancing pre-reading skills
-	Facilitating language acquisition in children	-	Tips for keeping multilingualism alive in your family

Background Information:
Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa, Ed.M from Harvard University in Education; PhD in progress in "Neuo-Education” (brain-based learning); Professor of Education at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador, Head of Teacher Training, Director of the Educational Development Center; author: Raising Multilingual Children: Language Acquisition and Children (2001); The Multilingual Mind: Questions by, for and about people living with many languages (2003); Multilingualism Across the Lifespan (in progress, due out in 2007); mother of three multilingual children.

Format:
One half day session.

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