Settlement Guide: Bilingual helping your child maintain heritage language and culture while growing up in Australia

The benefits of bilingual education are well documented. But experience shows that adapting it to your child’s needs is the only way to make it work for fostering cultural identity.

Teacher in the school Source: AFP

Census data reveals that over a fifth of Australian households speak a language other than English.

And while any parent raising bilingual children knows that language education can be a big task, research suggests it is worth the trouble.

And adapting language education to the child’s lived reality is key to avoid language and culture being felt as a burden

There are several approaches for bringing children up bilingually. Source: Pexels - PNW Production

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