The Bilingual Professor

education, language, learning · EN

Too many bilingual families have been told that something is wrong with them. The confusion. The mixing. The imperfect grammar, the home language that doesn't sound "native enough," the child who answers in English when you speak to them in Spanish. Nothing is wrong with them. Dr. Kevin Wong is a bilingualism researcher, teacher educator, and father of two emerging multilinguals. He draws from his own mixed race and multilingual upbringing in Hong Kong, and is raising his daughters in Mandarin, Cantonese, and English in the United States. Each episode, he takes the deficit narratives that follow bilingual families everywhere and replaces them with what the research actually says. For parents. For educators. For anyone navigating life in more than one language. Your child's bilingualism is not a risk factor. It's a resource. New episodes every two weeks.