BEE would like to thank Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert for leading a talk and discussion group on raising a bilingual family on Wednesday, 24th March 2010. The talk was sponsored by Angloinfo Dordogne.

The meeting at BEE followed a similar series of successful meetings hosted by Accents, an association in Poitou-Charentes with a similar aim and focus of BEE.

We hope, like Accents has done, to inaugurate a series of meetings throughout the year about different aspects of raising bilingual children. To receive news about the next one please subscribe to our newsletter by entering your email address in the 'subscribe' box at the very top of this page.

Here are some photos from the event.

Suzanne Barron-Hauwaert is British and married to a Frenchman. The family lives in the Poitou-Charentes region with their three more-or-less bilingual children, aged 12, 10 and 6. Suzanne has a Masters in Education and teaches English as a second language. She also independently researches family bilingualism and multilingualism. Suzanne is on the Editorial board of The Bilingual Family Newsletter and writes a quarterly column: 'Notes from the OPOL Family'. Suzanne is the author of 'Language Strategies for Bilingual Families - the one parent-one language approach' (Multilingual Matters, 2004) and is currently working on a book about siblings and bilingualism.