Maintaining Three Languages - The Teenage Years

In this book, Wang combines practical evidence-based advice with observations of her own family to explore the challenges of parenting teenagers within a multilingual family. This book places language within the wider context of teenagers' development, and will enable parents to assist their teenagers on their journey to multilingualism.

About the author

Xiao-lei Wang is Professor and Acting Dean of the School of Education at Pace University, USA. She is the author of Growing up with Three Languages: Birth to Eleven (Multilingual Matters, 2008) and Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family (Multilingual Matters, 2011). She is a regular speaker on child development and parenting at local, national and international parents' associations and academic conferences.

Summary

In this book, Wang combines practical evidence-based advice with observations of her own family to explore the challenges of parenting teenagers within a multilingual family. This book places language within the wider context of teenagers’ development, and will enable parents to assist their teenagers on their journey to multilingualism.

Product details

• Authors: Xiao-lei Wang, Xiao-Lei (Pace University) Wang
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2015
• EAN: 9781783094479
• ISBN: 978-1-78309-447-9
• No. of pages: 324
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 225 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 518 g
• Series: Parents' and Teachers' Guides; Parents' and Teachers' Guides
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures