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Arnberg, Lenore. Raising Children Bilingually: The Pre-school Years. Multilingual Matters, Ltd.: Clevedon, 1987. Contains practical suggestions for bilingual parenting. Some case studies also included.Baker, Colin. Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. Multilingual Matters, Ltd.: Clevedon, 1993. Details psychological sociological, educational, political and cultural issues associated with bilingualims. Provides valuable discussion of foundational bilingual issues.Baker, Colin. A Parents' and Teachers' Guide to Bilingualism. Multilingual Matters, Ltd.: Clevedon, 1995. An invaluable resource, this text discusses an exhaustive list of 117 questions on the subject of bilingual parenting. This is one you should consider buying.Casad, Eugene H. Windows on Bilingualism. Summer Institute of Linguistics and The University of Texas at Arlington: Arlington, 1992. Some useful articles, but most more theoretical than practical.Crystall, David. Listen to Your Child: A Parent's Guide to Children's Language. Penguin Books: London, 1986. Contains valuable information about language acquisition in children from birth through early school years. Very useful for parent's who want to understand more about what to expect from their own children.de Jong, Eveline. The Bilingual Experience: A Book for Parents. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1986. Contains a survey of bilingual parents and their experiences.Döpke, Susanne. One Parent One Language: An Interactional Approach. John Benjamins: Amsterdam, 1992. Describes from an academic point of the view how the "one parent one language" approach functions, including details from some case studies.Extra, Guus and Ludo Verhoeven, editors. The Cross-Linguistic Study of Bilingual Development. Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science: Amsterdam, 1994. The proceedings of an International Workshop on Bilingual Development in Amsterdam. Contains academic articles which give interesting insights into bilingualism.Harding, Edith and Philip Riley. The Bilingual Family: A Handbook for Parents. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 1986. Includes 16 case studies of bilingual families.Homel, Peter, et al. Childhood Bilingualism: Aspects of Linguistic, Cognitive, and Social Development. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates: New Jersey, 1987. Textbook including chapters discussing childhood bilingualism, case studies, language acquisition and processing, etc.Romaine, Suzanne. Bilingualism. Blackwell: Oxford, 1995. Textbook describing interesting and valuable information about bilingualism, including chapters on the bilingual speech community, the bilingual brain, code-switching, the bilingual child, bilingualism and education, attitudes toward bilingualism.Merril, Jane. Bringing Up Baby Bilingual. ISBN 0-87196-717-0 Saunders, George. Bilingual Parenting: Guidance for the Family. Multilingual Matters, Ltd.: Clevedon, 1982. Saunders, George. Bilingual Parenting: From Birth to Teens. Multilingual Matters, Ltd.: Clevedon, 1988. Include details of Saunders' own experiences teaching his children his non-native German. Extremely helpful information and many linguistic insights. Very valuable for bilingual parents attempting to teach their children a language native to neither parent and a language not dominant in the community.Tosi, Arturo. Immigration and Bilingual Education: A case study of movement of population, language change and education within the EEC. Pergamon Press: New York, 1984. Discusses issues of immigrant bilingualism, especially implications for education. Includes a detailed case study of Italian immigrants in Bedford, England as well as highlighting other immigrant language studies. The principles discussed throughout, although applied to immigrant bilinguals, do have implications for anyone seeking to initiate bilingualism at home. Especially helpful are chapter four, "Mother tongue learning processes and teaching approaches" and chapter five, "The maintenance of the mother tongue and culture."Biallystok, Ellen (Edt.). Language Processing in Bilingual Children. Cambridge University Press: 1991. Caldas, Stephen and Suzanne Caron-Caldas. "Rearing Bilingual Children in a Monolingual Culture: A Lousiana Experience." American Speech. 67,3 (1992: 290-296) Mostly anecdotal description of the authors' own experiences with bilingual parenting. Quite interesting. "Why, How and When Should My Child Learn a Second Language"
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