November 10, 2022
by Mary Pat
Comments Off on 5 Ways To Support Home Languages in Early Childhood Interactions
Welcome to the second post in the series about how early childhood educators can support multilingual children’s language development, especially the home languages. Remember how Zheng and colleagues in Australia looked at the research to find what works? Last time, … Continue reading
November 1, 2022
by Mary Pat
Comments Off on 9 Ways To Use Translanguaging In Preschool
Here is the first of 7 posts about research-backed ideas for supporting multilingual children’s home languages. The community language isn’t in danger. But once multilingual children start pre-school, their precious home languages are in danger of backsliding, plateauing, stagnating, or incomplete acquisition. We’ve got … Continue reading