Are you raising bilingual children?

[honeybebe]

Hi. I am a mom, a teacher, and a grad student who is working on a project about English Language Learners (ELLs). Are any of you moms raising bilingual children? Is English their second language? Do your children go to public school? If so, please share you opinions and/or experiences with English language learning in school. I look forward to hearing from you.

 

[m3lissa_16]

Here is the link to the Mamas Latinas group on Cafemom. The link on the bottom of this page is for Spanish speakers. This link has bilingual members.

http://www.cafemom.com/group/110074

Quoting Barabell:

You might have more luck finding experiences with ELL students in the Mama Latinas website, which is part of CM.

You can find a link to it at the very bottom of the page, right next to The Stir link.

[education_mom]

Our children speak English and Mandarin and are now attending a Korean school so they are learning that too. I was an ELL as a young child and back then there were no programs for kids learning English as their second language. Sink or swim. Nowadays, there are more programs to support ELLs and traning for teachers such as use of the SDAIE methods plus curriculum just for ELL kids such as Hampton Brown's Into English. It's a much better school environment for ELLs now than when I was a kid. 

[LadyStork]

 I'm teaching my kids German and English. English is their first language though

[tuplamama]

Our kids are biligual. Finnish is their first language, english second.

[Barabell]

Thanks for the clarification. :-)

Quoting m3lissa_16:

Here is the link to the Mamas Latinas group on Cafemom. The link on the bottom of this page is for Spanish speakers. This link has bilingual members.

http://www.cafemom.com/group/110074

Quoting Barabell:

You might have more luck finding experiences with ELL students in the Mama Latinas website, which is part of CM.

You can find a link to it at the very bottom of the page, right next to The Stir link.