The last Kletsheads [Season 3, Episode 8]
Transcript In this final – and therefore extra-long – episode, three parents who have previously been guests on the podcast talk...
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Kletsheads [English edition]
The podcast about bilingual children
Episodes
20 of 34 episodesBilingualism and dyslexia [Season 3, Episode 7]
Transcript Learning to read does not come easily to all children. Some children experience serious problems with reading and spelling. They...
The benefits of heritage language education (complementary schools) [Season 3, Episode 6]
Transcript Many bilingual children around the world attend heritage language education. Sometimes called complementary or supplementary scho...
Bilingualism and autism [Season 3, Episode 5]
Transcript According to WHO, 1 in 100 children have autism. Whilst exact numbers can vary depending on who’s reporting them, where in...
Books about bilingual parenting [Season 3, Episode 4]
Transcript In this episode we review two books about bilingual parenting: Bilingual success stories around the world by Adam Beck and Biling...
Bilingualism and aging: Can you lose a language?[Season 3, Episode 3]
Transcript If we are lucky, we will all grow old. And if we are even luckier, we will stay healthy for as long as possible. But even if we s...
Multiple languages, multiple identities? Bilingualism and identity [Season 3, Episode 2]
Transcript Identity. It’s a word you often hear when talking about children growing up in a bilingual family, but what does identity r...
Why are some bilingual children more bilingual than others? [Season 3, Episode 1]
Transcript Why do some bilingual children end up becoming more bilingual than others? That’s the question we’re answering in thi...
Coming soon: Season 3
Kletsheads is back! Season 3 is on its way. We’ll have a new episode for you on the 15th of every month from now through November, eig...
The best of ‘Kletshead of the week’
What do bilingual children think about being bilingual? Children – from 8 to 38 years old – talk about the fun and not so fun si...
Bilingual families in lockdown and Mother Tongues [Season 2, Episode 10]
Transcript It’s over two years since the Covid-19 pandemic broke out and families across the globe were forced into lockdown, with sch...
How the bilingual mind handles words from two languages [Season 2, Episode 9]
Transcript Bilingual children sometimes say things that their monolingual peers would never say. This is the same for adults, too. They don&...
Language mixing and bilingual secrets [Season 2, Episode 8]
Transcript Most bilingual children mix their two languages. Perhaps not all the time and not in all contexts, but as many parents will know,...
Bilingualism and academic achievement [Season 2, Episode 7]
Transcript Every three years, teenagers around the world are tested on their abilities in maths, science and reading, as part of PISA, the P...
Multimedia resources for multilingual families [Season 2, Episode 6]
Transcript When you’re raising a bilingual child and you’re the the only source of one of your child’s two or more languag...
Learning to read in two languages [Season 2, Episode 5]
Transcript Learning to read is an important step in your child’s development. When children start to learn to read depends on the coun...
Trilingual with Xitsonga and Hot off the Press [Season 2, Episode 4]
Transcript In Hot off the Press (starts at 01:12), I tell you about a recently published study from Canada. This research deals with two imp...
Well-being in bilingual families [Season 2, Episode 3]
Transcript Children who grow up hearing two or more languages do not always end up actively using all their languages as they get older. In...
Heritage language refusal & Hot off the press [Season 2, Episode 2]
Transcript In this episode of Kletsheads we talk about one of the greatest frustrations faced by parents raising their children bilingually:...
Bilingual babies [Season 2, Episode 1]
Transcript Children start talking when they are around one year old. However, we know from research that they are already working on languag...