Kletsheads [English edition]

Kletsheads [English edition]


Latest Episodes

Bilingual families in lockdown and Mother Tongues [Season 2, Episode 10]
June 24, 2022

Transcript It's over two years since the Covid-19 pandemic broke out and families across the globe were forcedinto lockdown, with schools and childcare centres closed and many parents having to

How the bilingual mind handles words from two languages [Season 2, Episode 9]
June 10, 2022

Transcript Bilingual children sometimes say things that their monolingual peers would never say. This is the same for adults, too. They don't always know certain words in each of their two (or mor

Language mixing and bilingual secrets [Season 2, Episode 8]
May 27, 2022

Transcript Most bilingual children mix their two languages. Perhaps not all the time and not in all contexts, but as many parents will know, bilingual children regularly start a sentence in one la

Bilingualism and academic achievement [Season 2, Episode 7]
May 13, 2022

Transcript Every three years, teenagers around the world are tested on their abilities in maths, science and reading, as part of PISA, the Programme for International Student Assessment. Basically

Multimedia resources for multilingual families [Season 2, Episode 6]
April 29, 2022

Transcript When you're raising a bilingual child and you're the the only source of one of your child's two or more languages, it can be a good idea to try and find other people or places for your

Learning to read in two languages [Season 2, Episode 5]
April 15, 2022

Transcript Learning to read is an important step in your child's development. When children start to learn to read depends on the country they live in. In some parts of the world, like the UK, chi

Trilingual with Xitsonga and Hot off the Press [Season 2, Episode 4]
April 01, 2022

Transcript InHot off the Press (starts at 01:12), I tell you about a recently published study from Canada. This research deals with two important factors in bilingual language development, namely

Well-being in bilingual families [Season 2, Episode 3]
March 18, 2022

Transcript Children who grow up hearing two or more languages do not always end up actively using all their languages as they get older. In such cases, it's typically the heritage or minority lang

Heritage language refusal & Hot off the press [Season 2, Episode 2]
March 04, 2022

Transcript In this episode of Kletsheads we talk about one of the greatest frustrations faced by parents raising their children bilingually: you speak consistently to them in the heritage or home

Bilingual babies [Season 2, Episode 1]
February 18, 2022

Transcript Children start talking when they are around one year old. However, we know from research that they are already working on language before that. In this episode, we learn what exactly ba