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Introducing Bilingual First Language Acquisition, or BLFA

By Tara | Published: July 25, 2010
Last night, I started my read of Annick De Houwer’s “Bilingual First Language Acquisition” with the last chapter on Harmonious bilingual development. Why did I start with the last chapter? While researching a short (two page) paper for my linguistics course in the fall, I read the first three chapters of this book, so I [...]
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Harmonious bilingual development

By Tara | Published: July 24, 2010
I finally started looking at my copy of “Bilingual First Language Acquisition” by Annick De Houwer tonight. I had some fun with my highlighters and I took some notes as I was reading Chapter 8, entitled “Harmonious bilingual development”. BLFA: good or bad? (p. 307-8) This section argues that BLFA itself is neither detrimental nor [...]
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My “Aha!” Moments at Work Today

By Tara | Published: May 10, 2010
For something that I was doing at work today, I needed some sample text. I wanted something that was of a reasonable length, say around 10 letter-sized pages, and I didn’t really feel like using Lorem Ipsum text. I had the bright idea to use one of my research papers from the fall term. I [...]
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