  Children in a large number of international and cross-cultural families in
and outside of the US learn and speak more than one language. However, parents
often struggle to acquaint their young children with their local language if
the child spends majority of time at home and with their spoken language if
they go to daycare or school. By reviewing relevant literature about the role
of screen media content in young children's language learning, and interviewing
a subset of parents raising multilingual children, we explore the potential of
designing conversational user interfaces which can double as an assistive
language aid.We present a preliminary list of objectives to guide the the
design of conversational user interfaces dialogue for young children's
bilingual language acquisition.
