Colin Baker

Written in a very reader-friendly style, the book is a practical introduction for parents and teachers to bilingualism. Straightforward and realistic answers are given to a comprehensive set of frequently asked questions about bilingualism and bilingual education. Areas covered include family, language, culture, identity, reading, writing, schooling and issues. In the third edition, there is new or more detailed consideration of: Moving between countries, cultural adaptation Identity issues One parent - one language (OPOL) families Pre schools / kindergartens / nursery schools Helping with homework Dyslexia Language scaffolding Multilingualism and trilingualism; trilingual families Adoption WWW links, articles and books for further reading

A Parents' and Teachers' Guide to Bilingualism

Nadine 

I understand the rationale of having the book structured as a Q&A but in doing so some of the strength of the message gets lost / diluted. 
The truth is that true bilingualism takes a lot of effort - and much of that needs to occur in the primary years and the hard bits are the literacy - especially writing. Further it takes a clear understanding of Jos to set your goals and plan to achieve them.
You need to do a lot of reading around the book to get that.

A Parents' and Teachers' Guide to Bilingualism

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