F. Isabel Campoy

F. ISABEL CAMPOY is the author and of numerous children’s books in the areas of poetry, theatre, stories, biographies, and art. As a researcher she has published extensively bringing to the curriculum an awareness of the richness of the Hispanic culture. She is an educator specialized in the area of literacy and home school interaction, topics on which she lecturers nationally. An internationally recognized scholar devoted to the study of language acquisition, a field in which she started publishing in l973 after obtaining her degrees in English Philology from Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain; Reading University in England, and UCLA in the United States.

Guest Post: Growing Up Bilingual by F. Isabel Campoy

There are words that will always have a special joy, importance, or sentimental value in the language in which you first learned them. Amic, jocs, ávia and pa hold a special place in my heart because I shared them with friends, in the streets where I grew up, in the market where my mother went … Read more