Children's Multilingual Development and Education: Fostering Linguistic Resources in Home and School Contexts [Paperback]

A study of the beliefs and practices of parents and educators raising future generations of multilingual children.The study of families and educators sustaining children's linguistic resources is a novelty in current educational research. This book presents new research findings and combines these with compelling firsthand accounts of success and concern from families and educators, making its content pertinent to a wide audience of researchers and practitioners.The study of families and educators sustaining children's linguistic resources is a novelty in current educational research. This book presents new research findings and combines these with compelling firsthand accounts of success and concern from families and educators, making its content pertinent to a wide audience of researchers and practitioners.The study of families and educators who successfully sustain children's linguistic resources is a novelty in current educational research, where focus has largely been on the development of students' English language skills. In this book, Alison L. Bailey and Anna V. Osipova provide a systematic examination of the beliefs and practices of parents and educators who share the common goal of improving educational and social outcomes for multilingual children. Giving voice to parents and educators, they explore the strategies being devised to foster multilingualism and support its development both at home and in the classroom. This book presents new research findings and combines these with compelling firsthand accounts of the successes and concerns of both families and educators, making its content pertinent to a wide audience of researchers and a range of higher education courses.Foreword Fred Genesee; Preface; 1. Multilingual nations: multilingualism in context; 2. The importance and impact of multilingualism; 3. Debunking myths about multilingualism; 4. Introducing families and educators of multilingual children; 5. Raising multilingual children: one family at al