Bilingual Children and Families

Written in a lively, engaging style, with lots of activities and resources for parents and teachers, "Bilingual By Choice" tells how to raise children bilingually and keep them that way into adulthood.

Whether in family life, social interactions, or business negotiations, half the people in the world speak more than one language every day. Yet many myths persist about bilingualism and bilinguals. Does being bilingual mean you are equally fluent in two languages, or that you belong to two cultures, or even that you have multiple personalities? Can you become bilingual only as a child? Why do bilinguals switch from one language to another in mid-sentence?...