Education - English Language Learners
The importance of dual language books
- Family Treasures and Grandma's SoupThis Calgary project explains the importance of dual language books, and provides lots of teaching ideas.
Finding Dual language books
Finding Dual Language Books
The Doucette Library has representative examples of dual language books, in a wide variety of languages. Use the library's Classic catalogue and search for bilingual books. Limit your search to the Doucette Library (see example below):
To find a bilingual book in a specific language add the name of the language to your search; eg. bilingual books farsi.
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Calgary Public Library is also a good source for dual language children's books, as well as children's books in many other languages. Do a subject search of their catalogue using the words bilingual and juvenile (plus the name of the language you are seeking) as in the example below:
