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Barbara Zurer Pearson

@bilingualchild.bsky.social

Semi-retired Research Associate in psycholinguistics, mostly bilingual child language, and author of Raising a Bilingual Child (Random House, 2008), still in print. Warrior for language justice!

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Here is the other side of the coin for the common misconceptions in my post above:

24.09.2025 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Doubts about raising a child bilingually? Are any of these myths about bllingual children a concern for you? To see research-backed facts to counter them, check the comments. To build even more confidence, check out my book! zpearsonbilingualchild.info
#bilingualkids #bilingualbooks #bilingual

24.09.2025 20:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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In my book β€œTwo Children/ Dos Idiomas,” I let Diana and Tony show you together how they discovered the benefit of speaking two languages. You can see their stories and read my explanations with the links at zpearsonbilingualchild.info
#bilingualkids #bilingualbooks #multilingualismmatters

02.06.2025 18:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Now that I have written a bilingual children's book myself, I'm so happy to see great sites like Language Lizard that has tons of beautiful bilingual children's books. Check out both pages!
@languagelizard.bsky.social
zpearsonbilingualchild.info
#bilingualbooks #languagelizard #bilingualkids

09.05.2025 16:15 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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After we published RBC in Mandarin, Chinese students helped me find it on the web in China. "Uh-oh Dr. P.," they said, "It’s all over the black market”!

But I was thrilled. At least people were reading it. : )

See β€œFind a Book” on my website: zpearsonbilingualchild.info
#bilingualchildren

09.05.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Finding Zurer's Books - RAISING A BILINGUAL CHILD About Zurer Pearson's books in different formats and languages and how to find them to read or buy or borrow from libraries.

It’s a luxury for busy parents to sit down and read a book. So, I shortened Raising a Bilingual Child and made it an audiobook. It is more streamlined, but still easy and conversational.
Please give the audiobook a listen!
zpearsonbilingualchild.info/find-a-book
#bilingualkids #multilingualism

01.05.2025 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The list of 12 steps is found at the end of Chapter 2 in both the Unabridged and Abridged editions. #bilingualkids #bilingualismmatters #bilinguallanguagedevelopment #bilingualfirstlanguage

17.04.2025 18:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Here are some excerpts from "Twelve Steps that Promote Language Development" that is featured in both the Abridged and Unabridged versions of my book "Raising A Bilingual Child". They are a great place to start for making conversations with children.

20.03.2025 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

So excited to see this, even if it's for last year. I'm just finishing and in process of publishing a Spanish-English bilingual children's book, too. Check my new website: zpearsonbilingualchild.info zpearsonbilingualchild.info/dosninos/

13.01.2025 15:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Is Monolingualism a Disadvantage? Not if you’re White In my most recent blog post I flipped the script and aske...

"Race matters when advocating for bilingualism and must be front and center" #bilingualism #ELL #racism
http://wp.me/p45k2O-4j

31.07.2015 12:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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