About Me
Barbara Zurer Pearson
Barbara Zurer Pearson, Ph.D. is a bilingualism expert with more than thirty years of research experience in the fields of bilingualism and linguistics. She was a Research Associate at the University of Miami and more recently the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her pioneering work on bilingual learning by infants and children and on language assessment has been published in scholarly journals and in the book Language and Literacy in Bilingual Children.
My Bilingual Story: How I became “a bilingual”
(from the Introduction to the book)
Personal Fascination and Professional Interest
My own interest in bilingual development is both personal and professional. I was not raised bilingually myself. I first became bilingual as a university exchange student. Maybe it was just the magic of being twenty years old in Paris, but I felt transformed when I discovered a larger world through living in another language.