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• Starting school: a turning point for bilingual children

    Some bilingual children become bilingual before school; however, many others become bilingual at school. Many children in immigrant families stay in a mainly family…

• What is your kids’ native language, and is there a genetic memory?

  A discussion on one social network prompted me to write this post. Some parents of Russian-English bilingual children in Canada referred to Russian as their…

• The case for case, or why bother about cases?

  Cases. These little endings on nouns in languages like Russian, Inuktitut, and …lots of others, in fact. Children don’t always get them right, even if…

• I am nominated for the Prestige Toronto Award

  I am nominated for the Prestige Toronto Award for my research on Russian-English child bilingualism and development of Russian as a heritage language! This award…