Issue 2: All About Elective Bilingualism

Issue 2 of Little Language Labs is here!

Another researched and vetted collection of advice, insights, and activities for multilingual families. This issue focuses on Elective Bilingualism, a term for families that invite a language beyond their mother tongues and community languages into their homes.

If this is you, you may feel like a trailblazer - all alone against incredible odds. We are here to support you with new perspectives, scientific understanding, and some tools that work from the home to the classroom to support any combination of languages.

This issue features:

• The Red family as they navigate the journey of building an intentionally multilingual home.
• Myth busting and an exploration about being a native speaker and it´s impacts on kiddo´s language.
• 3 play based strategies to boost language engagement

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