Do your kids know their body parts? The quest for scholastic language development standards for multilinguals.
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So true! I'm currently working on an article and would love to find a developmental chart that could help multilingual parents know about where their children are. I know it depends on each child...
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In reply to Stephen Greene. I think what we're all saying is that we would like a ...
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In reply to Stephen Greene. A fair evaluation doesn't have to be done in both/all ...
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I know what you are saying, but to be fair to the teacher they can't really be expected to know what their student is saying in whatever language they might use. It would be nice to have bilingua...
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Oh Eowyn. This is such important stuff and I'm so glad you are out there trying to change some of these biases!! Good luck!!
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This is an important aspect that every international school should be aware of! And not only in the first stages, at any stage. There will always be things multilingual children "record" in one o...
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In reply to Chris. It's so frustrating for our kids, isn't it - being penalized fo...
https://onraisingbilingualchildren.com/2014/03/03/do-your-kids-know-their-body-parts/#comment-2419
Best of luck! I had almost the same experience here in France. I'd been helping my eldest do some maths over the years, and then she came home from school one day having lost some marks because s...
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