Native language Quote by James Crawford

Bilingual-education advocates say it's important to teach a child in his or her family's language. I say you can't use family language in the…

— Richard Rodriguez

You know, even growing up going to school, I had teachers that were against bilingual teaching. I never understood that. My parents always had…

— Emily Rios

“how bilingualism has been shown to benefit • bilingual children’s precocious knowledge of language, • their enhanced cognitive development in general, and • the…

— Barbara Zurer Pearson

“not focusing on language turns out to be an effective way to teach language in sheltered classrooms, especially the kind of academic language that…

— James Crawford

“In my opinion, dual language education is a great public good that ought to be developed everywhere, as it can positively transform a child,…

— Fabrice Jaumont

“Advancing no particular theory of their own, some insist that explicit teaching of grammar, vocabulary, semantics, pragmatics, and even pronunciation is necessary because students…

— James Crawford

Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.

— Roman Jakobson

Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

My father had barely any education. He could hardly write or count. But his great pride was that he was perfectly bilingual. In the…

— Robert Lepage

“It is a noteworthy feature of 20C culture that for the first time in over a thousand years its educated class is not expected…

— Jacques Barzun

If educators were really understanding of that, they'd say, "You know what? Forget about bilingual, we're going to do multilingual education." So children are…

— Sandra Cisneros

“Another area of thinking where bilinguals have been shown to excel is divergent thinking, the ability to come up with many different solutions rather…

— Barbara Zurer Pearson