Tag Archives: English

German-English vs. Spanish-English German-English vs. Spanish-English

Posted on January 21, 2012 by Christof Demont-Heinrich

I have frequently wondered how my experiences speaking German in public with my two daughters, 7, and 5, whom my wife and I are raising as English-German bilinguals in the United States, would be different if we were raising them … Continue reading →

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Posted on November 4, 2011 by Ingrid Piller

How to make English-speaking friends is one of the perennial hot topics for new overseas students and new migrants. Advice on how to make “native” friends circulates like an underground currency: “Move in with English-speaking flat-mates!” “Avoid co-ethnics!” “Watch footy … Continue reading →

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pavlenko_thinking and speaking in two languages_featured Bilingual math

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Ingrid Piller

Over the past year or so I’ve started to make my daughter do daily arithmetic practice in German. My reason for doing so stems from my dissatisfaction with the ways in which rote learning and memorization as a learning style … Continue reading →

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Behind a name Behind a name

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Grace Chu-Lin Chang

One’s name is one of the most salient features for one’s identity. Some parents suffer from extraordinary indecisiveness when giving their newborn a wonderfully auspicious and proper name, all with utmost good intentions and expectations. English language learners often have … Continue reading →

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highschool Long-term English language learners

Posted on February 18, 2011 by Ingrid Piller

When I first started teaching in Australia, I had a Korean-Australian student in one of my undergraduate classes who sounded like most of the other students in my class, like a native speaker of Australian-English. The daughter of Korean immigrants, … Continue reading →

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