There are a number of myths attached to multilingual language acquisition.

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As practitioners (key workers, nursery nurses, teachers, teaching assistants, etc),  you may be asked about bi/multilingual language development.

The parents of the children you support as well as your colleagues may come to you with queries based on those myths.

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The attached document summarises the agreed best practice to support children's language development when they are growing up exposed to 2 or more languages.

The Useful Websites page may also be useful to signpost parents and other professionals.