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The Language Awareness Campaign
 
The Language Awareness Campaign is aimed at advising the parents of young children (0 to 5 years of age) as well as expectant parents, living in the Gaeltacht, of the advantages of choosing and using the Irish language as the household language and to encourage them accordingly.
 








Reading list

A Mc Kenna and E Wall
Our First Language: Acquisition of Irish, Glendale Press Dublin 1986
Alvino Fantini
Language Acquisition and the Bilingual Child
Colin Baker
Attitudes and Languages
Colin Baker
Key Issues in Bilingualism and Bilingual Education
Comhluadar
Speaking Irish at home
Edith Harding and Philip Riley
The Bilingual Family: a handbook for a parents, Cambridge University Press 1986
Gabrielle Maguire
Our Own Language: An Irish Initiative
George Saunders
Bilingual Children: Guidance for the Family
Hugo Baetens Beardsmore
Bilingualism: Basic Principles
Lenore Arnberg
Raising Children Bilingually: the preschool years
 
 
 
All of the above are available from:
 
Multilingual Matters, Bank House, 8a Hill Road, Clevedon, Avon BS21 7HH, England.
 
Or on the website: www.multilingual-matters.com
 
 
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