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Barbara Zurer Pearson
@bilingualchild.bsky.social
Semi-retired Research Associate in psycholinguistics, mostly bilingual child language, and author of Raising a Bilingual Child (Random House, 2008), still in print. Warrior for language justice!
Doubts about raising a child bilingually? Are any of these myths about bllingual children a concern for you? To see research-backed facts to counter them, check the comments. To build even more confidence, check out my book! zpearsonbilingualchild.info
#bilingualkids #bilingualbooks #bilingual
September 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
In my book “Two Children/ Dos Idiomas,” I let Diana and Tony show you together how they discovered the benefit of speaking two languages. You can see their stories and read my explanations with the links at zpearsonbilingualchild.info
#bilingualkids #bilingualbooks #multilingualismmatters
June 2, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Now that I have written a bilingual children's book myself, I'm so happy to see great sites like Language Lizard that has tons of beautiful bilingual children's books. Check out both pages!
@languagelizard.bsky.social
zpearsonbilingualchild.info
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May 9, 2025 at 4:15 PM
After we published RBC in Mandarin, Chinese students helped me find it on the web in China. "Uh-oh Dr. P.," they said, "It’s all over the black market”!

But I was thrilled. At least people were reading it. : )

See “Find a Book” on my website: zpearsonbilingualchild.info
#bilingualchildren
May 9, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It’s a luxury for busy parents to sit down and read a book. So, I shortened Raising a Bilingual Child and made it an audiobook. It is more streamlined, but still easy and conversational.
Please give the audiobook a listen!
zpearsonbilingualchild.info/find-a-book
#bilingualkids #multilingualism
Finding Zurer's Books - RAISING A BILINGUAL CHILD
About Zurer Pearson's books in different formats and languages and how to find them to read or buy or borrow from libraries.
zpearsonbilingualchild.info
May 1, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The list of 12 steps is found at the end of Chapter 2 in both the Unabridged and Abridged editions. #bilingualkids #bilingualismmatters #bilinguallanguagedevelopment #bilingualfirstlanguage
Here are some excerpts from "Twelve Steps that Promote Language Development" that is featured in both the Abridged and Unabridged versions of my book "Raising A Bilingual Child". They are a great place to start for making conversations with children.
April 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Here are some excerpts from "Twelve Steps that Promote Language Development" that is featured in both the Abridged and Unabridged versions of my book "Raising A Bilingual Child". They are a great place to start for making conversations with children.
March 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
So excited to see this, even if it's for last year. I'm just finishing and in process of publishing a Spanish-English bilingual children's book, too. Check my new website: zpearsonbilingualchild.info zpearsonbilingualchild.info/dosninos/
January 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Reposted by Barbara Zurer Pearson
"Race matters when advocating for bilingualism and must be front and center" #bilingualism #ELL #racism
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Is Monolingualism a Disadvantage? Not if you’re White
In my most recent blog post I flipped the script and aske...
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November 29, 2024 at 11:35 AM