Barbara Zurer Pearson is a bilingualism expert with more than thirty years of research experience, first at the University of Miami (FL) and then the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her pioneering work on bilingual learning by infants and children and on language assessment has been published in scholarly journals and in the book Language and Literacy in Bilingual Children.
"A timely and well-written book! . . . It is an invaluable resource
for today's parents to help preparetheir children for the future.
It provides clear, ...readable, and trustworthy guidelines they can
use to help the child learn a second language [. . .]."-J. Kevin
Nugent, Professor, Child and Family Studies, University
ofMassachusetts-Amherst, and Director, the Brazelton Institute,
Children'sHospital Boston and Harvard University
"Pearson . . . inspire[s] all of us to celebrate the richness
oflinguistic diversity in our lives.... This book is sure to become
a classic!..."-Kenji Hakuta, Ph.D., Lee L. Jacks Professor of
Education, StanfordUniversity, author of Mirror of Language: The
Debate on Bilingualism
"Pearson has used her keen insights about the issuesthat parents
are concerned about to paint an in-depth andinteresting-to-read
handbook."-Fred Genesee, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, McGill
University, coauthor of Dual Language Instruction: A Handbook for
Enriched Education
"Barbara Pearson's [book] is a wonderfully written,
sparklingcomposite of research results, personal narratives,
practical advice, and wise enthusiasm for the project of
bilingualism [. . .]."-Thomas Roeper, Ph.D., Professor of
Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, author of The Prism of
Grammar
"I thoroughly agree with the author's insights and
recommendations, which are both research-based and fl exible and
comprehensiveenough to accommodate different family
situations."-Lourdes C. Rovira, Ed.D., Associate Superintendent,
Curriculum andInstructional Support, Miami-Dade County Public
Schools
"I enjoyed reading Raising a Bilingual Child and foundit
informative and accessible."-Chris Rosenberg, Principal, Starr King
Elementary School, San Francisco
"This is a book that inspires confidence that the choice of
bilingualism is a good one for parents, for children, and for our
society."---Donna Christian, Ph.D., President, Center for Applied
Linguistics, Washington D.C.
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