{"id":17581,"date":"2018-01-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2018\/01\/31\/are-monolingual-parents-less-able-to-raise-bilingual-children\/"},"modified":"2021-02-08T15:37:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T07:37:45","slug":"are-monolingual-parents-less-able-to-raise-bilingual-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2018\/01\/31\/are-monolingual-parents-less-able-to-raise-bilingual-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Are monolingual parents less able to raise bilingual children?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"justify\"><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_17582\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17582\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17582\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/moe-mother-tongue-video.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"670\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/moe-mother-tongue-video.jpg 670w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/moe-mother-tongue-video-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: CNA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: black\"><span lang=\"en-US\">In an article for Channel NewsAsia, <\/span><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Dr <\/span><span style=\"color: black\">Leher Singh <\/span>(<span style=\"color: black\">Associate Professor, <\/span>NUS <span style=\"color: black\">Department of Psychology<\/span>)<span style=\"color: black\"> discusses the different factors that contribute to an effective bilingual education for children. <\/span>Dr <span style=\"color: black\">Singh emphasizes that monolingual parents can still develop bilingual skills in their children by relying on external sources of education. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\">Dr <span style=\"color: black\">Singh <\/span>elaborates on<span style=\"color: black\"> several factors that make second language education more effective; children should have prolonged exposure to the language, and exposure should be interactive in nature with speakers who are fluent in the language. Another important factor is ensuring that children are motivated to learn the language<\/span>; <span style=\"color: black\">while parents may see value in their child learning a second language for their future career, children need to be given motivations that appeal to them. Finally, family support is crucial \u2013 children adopt the attitudes their parents have towards learning new languages, and thus a supportive environment is important in fostering interest. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: black\">Thus, <\/span>Dr <span style=\"color: black\">Singh <\/span>highlights<span style=\"color: black\"> that what is important in fostering bilingualism in children is not whether their parents are bilingual or monolingual, but the quality of education their children receive for their second language, as well as the environment that their families provide for learning. <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"color: black\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Read <\/span><\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Dr Singh\u2019s article<\/span><span style=\"color: black\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/news\/commentary\/commentary-what-hope-do-monolingual-parents-have-in-raising-9842552\"> here.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article for Channel NewsAsia, Dr Leher Singh (Associate Professor, NUS Department of Psychology) discusses the different factors that contribute to an effective bilingual education for children. Dr Singh emphasizes that monolingual parents can still develop bilingual skills in their children by relying on external sources of education. \u00a0 Dr Singh elaborates on several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":17582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4529,4543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-psychology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17581"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28207,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17581\/revisions\/28207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}