Barbara Zurer Pearson, Ph.D.

Ask an Expert: Help! I’m getting discouraged!

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010, by Roxana S.

This week’s Ask an Expert question was sent by Yaz who says she’s getting discouraged because she didn’t think it would be so hard to raise bilingual children. We’ve all felt that way at some point in our journey, Yaz! Please hang in there and know you can always come back to SpanglishBaby for support. read more ...

Ask an Expert: Is it too late to reinforce the minority language at home?

Monday, November 2nd, 2009, by Ana Lilian

This post was originally published on April 27, 2009.
Another Monday another question answered by one of the members of our amazing and always growing panel of experts as part of our weekly series: Ask an Expert. If you have missed previous entries, no worries, you can catch up on all their useful advice by clicking read more ...

Ask an Expert: Should I do something about my son’s grammar mistakes?

Monday, October 19th, 2009, by Guest

This week’s Ask an Expert question was sent in by Susan, and is raising her sons trilingual.
“My husband and I are raising our sons to be trilingual–I speak to them in Spanish and he speaks to them in German. He will learn English since it is the majority language, and he understands it since my read more ...

Ask an Expert: My older children speak English, but I want my baby to hear Spanish only.

Monday, August 31st, 2009, by Ana Lilian

This week’s Ask an Expert question was sent by Donna, mother of three.
“I have 3 children. The older 2 who are 12 and 9 mostly speak and understand English. We are trying to speak only Spanish to the baby who is 2 months old. What can we do to be sure that the baby speaks read more ...

Ask an Expert: When Should My Child Learn to Read a Second Language?

Monday, July 27th, 2009, by Ana Lilian

During the past weeks we’ve been dedicating some time to the topic of reading to bilingual kids.  Last week we launched our new monthly series ReadMe where we’ll showcase a bilingual/Spanish children’s book and author.  We also posted an article sent to us by Deanna Lyles (www.BilingualReaders.com) titled “Raising Bilingual Readers:  The Art of Reading read more ...

Ask an Expert: My Son Stopped Speaking Spanish

Monday, June 8th, 2009, by Ana Lilian

The weekly series Ask an Expert has turned out to be one of the most popular categories in SpanglishBaby. We´re still humbled and in awe of the amazing panel of professional bilingual experts we´ve managed to put together to answer your questions once a week.

We invite you to click on the Ask an Expert tab in the navigation menu to meet the panel, to learn more about their area of expertise and to send us your question.

Ask an Expert: How Do I Continue to Reinforce Exposure to Spanish?

Monday, April 27th, 2009, by Roxana S.

Another Monday another question answered by one of the members of our amazing and always growing panel of experts as part of our weekly series: Ask an Expert. If you have missed previous entries, no worries, you can catch up on all their useful advice by clicking here.

This week, Barbara Zurer Pearson, Ph.D., author of read more ...

Ask an Expert: Mixing Languages

Monday, March 16th, 2009, by Ana Lilian

Monday is our favorite day of the week because, through our panel of amazing experts, we get to answer a reader’s question, as part of our weekly series: Ask an Expert . If you’ve missed previous entries, no worries, you can catch up on all their useful advice by clicking here.
Barbara Zurer Pearson, Ph.D., author read more ...

Another one for the Experts…

Monday, February 23rd, 2009, by Roxana S.

This is our second installment in our weekly series, Ask an Expert, and we are so happy to introduce Barbara Zurer Pearson, Ph.D., author of the informative and extremely useful book Raising a Bilingual Child–among many other qualifications. But before we get into all those, we wanted to thank all of you for sending your questions and remind you that you can continue to do so by going here!

Barabara Zurer Pearson, Ph. D.
Barabara Zurer Pearson, Ph. D.

A bilingualism expert with over twenty years of research experience in the fields of bilingualism, linguistics, and communication disorders, Pearson is currently a Research Associate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.