Resumen de Different phases: a personal case study in language adjustment and children's bilingualism

Susan Fries

• This first-person case study ofan American woman married to a Frenchman attempts to situate the issue of raising children biculturally within the foreign parent's total experience of progressive language acquisition and cultural Integration. The choices faced by the author regarding personal andfamily language use over a 25-year period, and their repercussions on her and her children s identities, resemble those encountered by many American women in similar situations.