RAISING A BILINGUAL CHILD

Scholarly downloads

• Footnotes for the Random House version of Raising a Bilingual Child
• Chapter 7 (Research Chapter) of unabridged book
• Reference pages from unabridged book

Downloads for parents (different page)

Graphic of Myths

Graphic of Table x–by Mama Madre

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Learning Language from the Top Down

In Chapter 2, Learning a First Language, I talk about building the language tower from the bottom up–as most of us do. But I also mention that some children focus first on the melody of language. They go right to the top and learn the paragraphs and sentences.

In the book, I mention that my son is one such child, but I also lament that when he was a babbler, I didn’t have a tape recorder, so I missed have a record of it. Luckily, though, his son did the same thing–and I got it on tape.

Here is 30-seconds of Eli at the train exhibit in a local museum. There are older children there, and he is running toward them, telling them something. Doesn’t he sound like he’s talking?! Do you hear a question in there? But what is he asking?