Stephen J. Caldas | 06 Apr 2006, Multilingual Matters | 9781853598753 | 248 pages
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Multilingual Matters
This book is a case study carefully detailing the French/English bilingual and biliterate development of three children in one family beginning with their births and ending in late adolescence. The author and researcher is the children’s French/English bilingual American father, who was aided by his bilingual French Canadian wife (also the children’s mother). They reared their three children in two different cultures— essentially monolingual English-speakingLouisiana, and totally monolingual French-speaking Québec. The family spent academic years inLouisiana, and the summer months in Québec. Their strategy was to speak only French to their son and their identical twin daughters.(Multilingual Matters)