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Mon, Feb 06, 2012

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Reflections on Multilingual Childhoods

By Claire Thomas

Published by Multilingual Matters - Available from 15th April 2012

Primarily aimed as a practical resource for parents, but also of interest to students and researchers because of its unique content, it includes recollections of and advice on many of the common issues or dilemmas that arise in multilingual families.

March is Multilingual Month !

WFBG has carried out a research to find out what local schools are doing to encourage and value children's home languages and organised an exhibition displaying our findings held in Walthamstow Central.

3 - 31 March 2011
Walthamstow central Library
(neat town market) 

A leaflet will be available as a download soon ! It will also be distributed in all local schools, and used by our members to encourage their local schools to adopt all of the good ideas and successful practices that this initiative has brought to light. Our work is supported by Voluntary Action and funded by "Grassroots Grants".

WFBG Annual General Meeting was held on the 8th of January 2011.

The meeting agreed that 2010 had been another good year for WFBG.

Article by Claire Thomas, secretary of WFBG

Waltham Forest News, issue 27, 20 September 2010

Sunday 26 September is European Day of Languages, when people all over Europe will celebrate all the languages from all over the world that are spoken on our continent. Over 20 per cent of people in Waltham Forest speak a language other than English to a very high level, and we estimates that over 300 languages are spoken in the Borough.

 

Cate Daniels and Chris Cordina present:

Working with your Child's school

Saturday 5th February 2011 at 3.45 pm
Limes Children's and Community Centre, Somers Road, Walthamstow.

 

Read more about workshops

This is an interesting and new story about piece of research demonstrating that babies that heard two languages spoken regularly during pregancy (i.e. spoken by their bilingual mothers) listened with more interest to both languages than those that heard only one of the languages. The babies were also able to tell the difference between the two languages very soon after birth.

Read article in Science Daily published on February 10th 2010

NEW Book

Growing up with Languages - Reflections on Multilingual Childhoods

By Claire Thomas

Published by Multilingual Matters - Available from 15th April 2012 - Special discount if you order online

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