This blog focuses on the topic of bilingualism. We invite discussions on all things bilingual: research in bilingual children or adults, learning two languages, language impairment in bilingual populations, funny stuff (cartoons, jokes and so on), and bilingualism in the news are some examples. If you’re interested in becoming a contributor to the blog (with your own posts) send Liz an e-mail: lizp@mail.utexas.edu.
Please feel free to comment on any of the posts. At this point we have no rules or guidelines about comments, but we’ll come up with some as the need arises.
Do you have questions? Comments? Suggestions for topics? Add your comment below.
#1 by Malena Florin on March 12, 2009 - 2:11 pm
Hi Elizabeth and Brian,
I work in NYC for a company that trains corporate professionals in communication skills and language. We also provide translation services. My academic background is in Linguistics and I myself grew up bilingual (Spanish/English). I am enjoying your blog and I look forward to future posts. Last year, besides working for Lanartco, I also taught as a bilingual/special education teacher in the NYC public school system. My biggest challange was assessing/determining special education services for my students; whether they truely were in need of them or they were just delayed due to their language behaviors.
Trying to convince the administration and some parents of the latter was very difficult.
Thanks for posting and I hope you continue to grace us with your wisdom on the subject of bilingualism.
Malena
#2 by knowledgetoday on March 30, 2009 - 4:31 am
I love your site. Keep it up !
#3 by nivels on November 17, 2009 - 10:37 am
I’m writing just to introduce myself and will run to discover your blog, which looks so interesting to me already! I’m living in Rome with my Italian husband and our 1/2 Russian-1/2Italian little boy, who is growing up as a bilingual one. Recently I started to write a blog about bilingualism. It could be really nice to collaborate, at least I’m going to follow you!
Good luck, Sofia
http://www.designdelbilinguismo.wordpress.com
#4 by Diana Angeles on June 21, 2010 - 2:37 am
I really enjoy reading this blog. I am a student at SFSU, so I take this blog as an important tool to increase my knowledge in bilingualism!
I have learned so much stuff just by reading the great articles.
Thanks so much and many students from SFSU thank you deeply for this amazing site!
Thanks again!!
#5 by Ramon Talavera on September 28, 2010 - 9:19 am
Hi. I’m Ramón Talavera. I’m Mexican and I work at UT (www.utk16.org/lucha)
I teach Spanish as a foreign language through Hispanic literature at the the Faulk Central Library in Austin and through a blog.
I thought you might be interested in checking my blog: http://yquemecuentas.blogspot.com
One of the most interesting sections of the blog is “Ejercicios del curso por autor” . You can find it in the right hand side of the blog. You can see how students create their own stories using eight new words every class. It is really interesting what they have been able to create.
Kind regards,
Ramón Talavera-Franco ,MA
http://www.utk16.org/lucha
http://yquemecuentas.blogspot.com
rtalavera@austin.utexas.edu
rtquemecuentas@gmail.com
#6 by Katja Gielnik on July 7, 2011 - 3:38 am
My, I didn’t know bilingualism has such a lot of theory behind it!
We just do it. My girls are speaking German with me, English to their dad, and Spanish in school. Just look at my post to see what we did to achieve trilingualism in our 10 and 6 year old children:
http://expertmanagement.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/four-golden-rules-to-raise-bilingual-children/
Un saludo und viel Spass!