Companion
Two Languages: Korean
You translate for your halmoni at the pharmacy
Children who complete this book have a personal identity map in both Korean and English, in their own words.
Children who grow up speaking Korean at home and English at school — who carry the language of their family and the language of their friends, and who are learning that both make them who they are
The Name It First Experience
Some feelings only have the right word in Korean — this book holds both languages and all of who you are. Two Languages: Korean walks a bilingual child through their words, their names, their halmoni's language, and the world at school — giving form to the experience of carrying Korean and English every day. It is for the child who moves between two languages without thinking about it, who holds words in both, and who has never had a book that recognized both versions of themselves as the same whole person. They finish with a Korean-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 is a Korean word you have heard at home that you love the sound of?
- Is there something your home language lets you say about yourself that English does not quite have a word for?
- What Korean word or phrase do the people who raised you use that you have always known?
- When you think about both of your languages, what do you notice about who you are in each one?
Research basis
Grounded in Cummins (1979) bilingual language development / Wong Fillmore (1991) heritage language maintenance / Bialystok (2011) bilingual identity development in children / Korean-English bilingual child identity scholarship.
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