Companion
Two Languages: Arabic
You translate for your baba at the school meeting
Children who complete this book have a personal identity map in both Arabic and English, in their own words.
Children who grow up speaking Arabic at home and English at school — who carry the language of their family alongside the language of the world outside, and who are learning that both belong to them
The Name It First Experience
Carrying two languages means knowing how to be yourself in two worlds — this book is where you write that down. Two Languages: Arabic walks a bilingual child through their words, their names, their family, and the two worlds they hold — giving language to the experience of living between Arabic and English every day. It is for the child who translates at the school meeting, who knows which language belongs to which part of life, and who carries both without ever having had a book that belongs to both of them. They finish with an Arabic-English Identity Map — a page that shows exactly who they are in both languages, in their own words.
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Sample questions
- What language does your family use most at home?
- What is a word in Arabic that you love the sound of?
- Who taught you your first word in another language?
Research basis
Grounded in Cummins (1979) bilingual language development / Wong Fillmore (1991) heritage language maintenance / Bialystok (2011) bilingual identity development in children / Arabic-English bilingual child identity research.
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