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Event Videos — #BilingualEducation

BILINGUALISM: Challenges and Benefits of Learning and Living in Multiple Worlds

BILINGUALISM: Challenges and Benefits of Learning and Living in Multiple Worlds

Soccer or Saturday School? Parents in diasporic communities routinely grapple with the challenge of carving out time for their children to engage with and experience their ancestral cultures. This panel discussion discusses the value of bilingual education, looking at experiences of other ethnic communities in the U.S. and around the world, with a particular focus on the specificities of the Armenian experience, including the special challenges facing Western Armenian, which has been classified as an “endangered language,” the fruitful cohabitation of Western and Eastern Armenian, and the specific challenges of researching and teaching the Armenian language.

 

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