Assignment: you read Grosjean and García & Kleifgen and watch Gort's video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9L9-wtRjmo), make personal connections and reflect on these questions:
1. What ideas from the readings / video confirm what you already knew about bilingualism / multilingualism? (For example, that you have already learned, or that you have heard in your family, in your schooling, in the media, and/or social media, etc.)
2. What ideas are new to you and give you a deeper understanding of bilingualism / multilingualism?
3. What ideas have started to challenge your own understandings about bilingualism / multilingualism?
Readings:
1. Bilingual Life and Reality
By Francois Grosjean
2. Educating Emergent Bilinguals
By Ofelia Garcia and Jo Anne Kleifgen