7月13日(土)
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Raising Bilingual Kids in Japan
There are many ways of raising bilingual and multilingual children, along with the associated challenges, while living in Japan. Attend two presentations integrating research on second language acquisition with first-hand experiences raising multilingual children in Japan.
Time & Location
2024年7月13日 14:00 – 17:00 JST
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About the Event
Challenges of Multilingual Families
Montserrat Sanz Yagüe
Kobe City University of Foreign Studies
Monolingual families are all alike; every multilingual family is multilingual in its own way”. Following this Anna Karenina principle, we will argue that raising multilingual children is a complex task that involves many factors, decisions, and adjustments to the environment. The result is that there are no two multilingual children alike and that families need to understand the general principles underlying bilingualism to make their own decisions at every stage. This talk combines an account of the personal experience of the speaker—a mother of three multilingual/multicultural children— with reflections on the general issues discussed in the literature on bilingualism. The different results achieved with the three children serve to illustrate the topics involved in raising multilingual families, including some language impairments in children with special needs.
Montserrat Sanz Yagüe (Spain, 1966), graduated with a degree on English…