Know-it-all passport®'s upcoming workshop on Raising Multilingual Children
Hotel Cornavin
Thursday, 18 January 2024
18h-22h
Raising Multilingual Children: Foreign Language Acquisition and Children
This interactive workshop on raising multilingual children will be led, once again, by the world-renowned specialist in education and neuroscience, Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa, Ph.D.. Half Japanese-American and half Irish-Native American, Tracey is married to an Ecuadorian and has 3 adult children who all speak fluent English, Spanish and German, and some French.
Currently teaching a successful course on The Neurscience of Learning and Achievement at Harvard University Extension School and Harvard College, Tracey has written numerous books on the brain and learning. Her first book, “Raising Multilingual Children: Foreign Language Acquisition and Children”, is especially popular with international parents facing the challenges of raising children in a multilingual environment. She has now written 11 books and keeps going! Her latest book is entitled, "Questions Kids Ask About Their Brains: How the Answers Help Students Learn and Teachers Teach".
Language acquisition: the key to success
According to Tracey, there are Ten Key Factors, which influence every student’s success with new languages:
- Timing
- Aptitude
- Motivation
- Strategy
- Consistency
- Opportunity
- Language Typology
- Siblings
- Gender
- Hand-use
Each person will combine these “ingredients” together in their own unique “recipe” for learning. Tracey's workshop will familiarize teachers and parents with these factors and suggest tools for enhancing those which are shaped in the school context.
Tracey will explain how children learn languages and answer your questions. For example:
- Is it ok to have 2, 3, 4 languages at the same time or is it better for children to learn languages consecutively?
- When should your children learn multiliteracy skills?
- Who should speak what in order to maximize the best language skills?
- Should you learn a foreign language alongside your children?
- Raising your child multilingually has worked so far, but now your child is growing up and you have different questions about identity, literacy, strategy, etc.
- Come with your own questions and be prepared to share your own concerns about the best way to raise multilingual children.
Given Tracey's ongoing research in this field, workshop participants can expect to learn more about the very latest studies on human language learning and multilingualism. Tracey will also share some of the results from her research project focusing on the neural correlates of reading (i.e. how the brain reads).
Workshops and private meetings in Geneva
With such a busy work schedule, Tracey doesn't often have the chance to share her knowledge so Know-it-all passport® is very fortunate to have been asked to host another workshop for her again. Following the success of last time's private meetings, Tracey will also meet parents requiring specific guidance on a particular issue for one-to-one meetings, which can be booked during daytime private meetings.
As with previous events, participants will be able to download a copy of the presentation after they have attended the workshop.
Comments from previous years' workshops:
"For me the workshop was really enjoyable and highly interesting; I could have spent many more hours learning about and discussing the topic. Even the short workshop was useful and helped me put more structure in my thoughts about raising multilingual children. Hope to participate again." —Sascha
"I would like to commend you and Tracey for a truly wonderful seminar. Thank you for organizing this. The information we all received on Wednesday has proven to be so useful and was delivered in such a fun and jovial way that it would be forever remembered. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! And I'm completely with you about not being able to recall word for word what Tracey says. She cited examples that made everything so clear and I'd love to stop, rewind and play her again and again.;-) She's amazing! Thank you again for such a wonderful workshop!" —Kecia
"Thank you very much for making this excellent workshop available! I really enjoyed it and got a lot out of it. I was about to give up on speaking Italian with my daughter, but got my second wind now." —Maria
"Many thanks for introducing Tracey the other night. She is phenomenal! The volume of research she shared on raising multilingual kids and the energy with which she conducted the evening was brilliantly impressive." —Purmina
"Just wanted to say the workshop was great, inspiring and really very, very helpful. Many thanks for organizing it, great initiative." —Joanna
LOCATION:
- Hotel Cornavin
Thursday, 18 January 2024
18h-22h
Boulevard James-Fazy 23
1201 Genève
https://fassbindhotels.ch/hotel/cornavin
Underground parking at Cornavin train station. Many buses, trains, and trams arrive at the doorstep. The event will be held on top floor of the hotel.
18h Registration and welcome drink
18h30-20h Ten key factors which influence every student’s success with new languages
20h-20h30 Break with drinks and snacks
20h30-21h45 How children learn languages and Q&A
22h end
Click here to register for the workshop on Thursday, 18 January 2024 at 18h.
Includes welcome drink🍷, as well as drinks 🥃 ☕️ and snacks 🧀 🍪 during the break.
- ADVANCE BOOKING online before 23h30 on 17 January 2024:
Fr. 100.-/individual, Fr. 165.-/couple (2 parents of the same family) - AT THE DOOR (CASH ONLY):
Fr. 120.-/individual, Fr. 195.-/couple (2 parents of the same family). Please note that if you wait to pay at the door, there is a risk that you will be turned away if the event is full.
PRIVATE MEETINGS
If you would like to have a private meeting with Tracey (can be in English or Spanish), you can discuss your individual situation with her. Appointments are booked in 40-minute increments at Fr. 165.-. If you would like 1.5 hour, then book 2 adjoining openings. First come, first served.
A private room will accommodate both parents to have a one-on-one meeting with Tracey. Please send in your family language situation and questions or comments prior to the meeting so your time will be used to its fullest. Please arrive 5 minutes before your appointment.
Geneva - Thursday, 18 January 2024
9h-16h30 (40 minute meetings)
Fill out this form to ask for availabilities and register; please put your first and second option for the time slot. As spaces get booked up, they will be masked.
| Private meeting time slot 1 | 9h-9h40 | CHF 165 |
| Private meeting time slot 2 | 9h45-10h25 | CHF 165 |
| Private meeting time slot 3 | 10h30-11h10 | CHF 165 |
| Private meeting time slot 4 | 11h15-11h55 | CHF 165 |
| Private meeting time slot 5 | 12h-12h40 | CHF 165 |
| Private meeting time slot 6 | 12h45-13h25 | CHF 165 |
| Private meeting time slot 7 | 13h30-14h10 | CHF 165 |
| Private meeting time slot 8 | 14h15-14h55 | CHF 165 |
| Private meeting time slot 9 | 15h-15h40 | CHF 165 |
| Private meeting time slot 10 | 15h45-16h25 | CHF 165 |
"Our private meeting with Tracey met all our expectations—actually exceeded them. She's got so much knowledge on the topic and is up-to-date with the latest research and findings. It had been reassuring and with great confidence that we follow her guidance. There's no other way I would have done this and I am so happy that I contacted her after reading her book, Raising Multilingual Children.
"I especially appreciated that she fueled our need for knowledge by sending presentations and articles. I think the meeting was well-spent money.
"I will definitely recommend Tracey to every parent in need for guidance." —Roxana G.
RESERVATIONS:
Click here to register for the workshop on Thursday, 18 January 2024, 18h-22h. (limited space).
Click here to request a private meeting with Tracey on Thursday, 18 January 2024, between 9h-16h30 (10 spaces total).
Cancellations 3 days before: 50% refund
Cancellations 1 day before: no refund
- Know-it-all passport
If you would like to purchase a copy of the 11th edition of Know-it-all passport®, there is an option to reserve a copy for collection at the workshop or private meeting. You will have the opportunity to ask any special questions in advance of the meetings and workshop. You will have the option on the form to reserve a book if you wish!
- Raising Multilingual Children
Tracey's book "Raising Multilingual Children" can be purchased online from Amazon by clicking here.
