September 30, 2023
by Mary Pat
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I can’t believe it’s been SO long since I posted….life got in the way I’m afraid…too many balls in the air and not enough hands….planning to be back now though. So this is the 3rd post in the series about … Continue reading
November 10, 2022
by Mary Pat
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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
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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
August 5, 2015
by Mary Pat
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So this week’s situation is from Heather who is part of a monolingual English speaking family with two children aged 9 and 13. Her son and daughter have dyslexia. The family are moving to rural Portugal so they will be … Continue reading