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Growing Up with Two

Languages

‘A book like this is decades overdue. Parents hoping to raise their children as

bilingual need sound advice that lays out options without preaching, illustrates

rather than overwhelms. Growing Up with Two Languages is an excellent guide

for working through day-to-day issues of bilingual parenting and long-term

strategies for dealing with such fundamental issues as children’s cultural identity

and social comfort.’

Naomi S. Baron, American University, Washington, DC

and author of Growing Up with Language

‘. . . stimulating reading for all those unacquainted with issues surrounding

bilingualism in the family. This book records and discusses a wealth of

experience from all over the world and a good many language combinations,

backgrounds and circumstances . . . it offers a great deal of sensible advice and

practical help.’

Charlotte Hoffman, University of Salford and

author of An Introduction to Bilingualism

The lives of many families involve contact with more than one language and culture

on a daily basis. Growing Up with Two Languages is aimed at the many parents and

professionals who feel uncertain about the best way to go about helping children

to gain maximum benefit from the situation.

Every family’s situation is different, but there is a good deal that parents can do

to make life with two languages easier for their children.

Growing Up with Two Languages is illustrated by glimpses of life from interviews

with fifty families from all around the world. The trials and rewards of life with

two languages and cultures are discussed in detail, and followed by practical advice

on how to support the child’s linguistic development.

Una Cunningham-Andersson is a lecturer in English Phonetics at the

University of Stockholm. Staffan Andersson is a teacher of computing and

electronics.They are raising their four children to speak English and Swedish

in Sweden.

Growing Up with Two

Languages

A practical guide

Una Cunningham-Andersson

and Staffan Andersson

London and New York

First published 1999

by Routledge

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group

This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2002.

reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic,

mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented,

including photocopying and recording, or in any information

storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from

the publishers.

British Library Cataloging in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British

Library

Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data

Cunningham-Andersson, Una, 1960–

Growing up with two languages: a practical guide/Una

Cunningham-Andersson and Staffan Andersson.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.

1. Bilingualism in children. 2. Parenting. I.Andersson,Staffan,

1948– . II.Title.

P115.2.C86 1999

404 ′ .2 ′ 083—dc21

99-14500

CIP

ISBN 0 415 21256 1 (hbk)

ISBN 0 415 21257 X (pbk)

ISBN 0-203-19643-0 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-19646-5 (Glassbook Format)

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