PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert is on the Editorial Board of the Bilingual Family Newsletter. Married to a Frenchman with three young children she has direct experience of bringing up children with two or three languages. They have lived as an expatriate family in Hungry, Egypt and Switzerland. Suzanne trained as a teacher of English as a second language and taught adults and children in Japan and Poland. In 1999 she completed a Master's dissertation on trilingual families and continues to research bilingual and trilingual families.
The book presents a well-developed and well-documented position on the OPOL approach.Irma M. Olmedo, University of Illinois, in Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 27:4Suzanne has written a superbly clear and accessible account of the daily challenges of family life with several languages. Her recommendations are substantiated by extensive research and show great insight into children's language development. I particularly enjoyed the numerous case-studies of multilingual families, and I would warmly recommend this book as the 21st Century guide to parents of multilingual children.Helen Le MerleThis book provides an excellent framework for parents who are interested in and concerned by raising bilingual children.Dr. Beate Luo, Linguistlist
