Companion
Two Languages: Spanish
You translate for your abuela at the doctor
Children who complete this book have a personal identity map in both languages, in their own words.
Children who grow up speaking Spanish at home and English at school — who translate for the adults in their family and carry both languages, both worlds, and both versions of themselves every day
The Name It First Experience
Speaking two languages means being two versions of yourself — and both of them are real. Two Languages: Spanish walks a bilingual child through their words, their names, their family, and their two worlds — giving language to the experience of living between Spanish and English every day. It is for the child who translates at the doctor, who has a different name at home than at school, who carries two languages and has never had a book that carries them back. They finish with a Spanish-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 word you know in Spanish that feels different from the English word for the same thing?
- What is something about you that is easier to say in Spanish — and what is something easier to say in English?
- Who taught you your first Spanish word that wasn't in school?
Research basis
Grounded in Cummins (1979) bilingual language development research / Wong Fillmore (1991) on heritage language maintenance and identity / identity development in bilingual children (Bialystok, 2011) on cognitive and identity benefits of bilingualism.
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