The fifth edition of this bestselling book provides a comprehensive introduction to bilingualism and bilingual education. In a compact and clear style, its 19 chapters cover all the crucial issues in bilingualism at individual, group and national levels. These include:
• defining who is bilingual and multilingual
• testing language abilities and language use
• languages in communities and minority groups
• endangered languages
• language planning, language revival
• the development of bilingualism in infancy and childhood
• bilingualism in the family
• age and language learning
• adult language learning
• bilinguals' thinking skills
• bilingualism and the brain
• theories of bilingualism
• types of bilingual education
• heritage language education
• evaluations of bilingual education
• minority language literacy
• biliteracy and multiliteracies
• effective teaching and learning methods in bilingual classrooms
• the effectiveness of bilingual education in the United States
• the history of bilingual education in the United States
• language minority underachievement
• bilingual special education
• the assessment of language minority children
• Deaf bilinguals
• the spread of English as a global language
• learning English as a second or third language
• language identity and multiple identities
• the politics surrounding language minorities and bilingual education
• assimilation and pluralism
• bilingualism and employment
• bilingualism and the internet

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Language and Learning in the International University From English Uniformity to Diversity and Hybridity

Colin Baker, Wayne E. Wright

Ingram Publisher Services UK- Academic

Channel View Publications Ltd

Multilingual Matters

Bilingual education and bilingualism, 5th ed, Bristol, 2011

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

5, 20110218

Coverpage -- Series Editor -- Titlepage -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Bilingualism: Definitions and Distinctions -- CHAPTER 2 The Measurement of Bilingualism -- CHAPTER 3 Endangered Languages: Planning and Revitalization -- CHAPTER 4 Languages in Society -- CHAPTER 5 The Early Development of Bilingualism -- CHAPTER 6 The Later Development of Bilingualism -- CHAPTER 7 Bilingualism and Cognition (updated by Panos Athanasopoulos) -- CHAPTER 8 Cognitive Theories of Bilingualism and the Curriculum -- CHAPTER 9 Historical Introduction to Bilingual Education: The United States (updated by Wayne Wright) -- CHAPTER 10 Types of Bilingual Education -- CHAPTER 11 Education for Bilingualism and Biliteracy -- CHAPTER 12 The Effectiveness of Bilingual Education -- CHAPTER 13 Effective Schools and Classrooms for Bilingual Students -- CHAPTER 14 Literacy, Biliteracy and Multiliteracies for Bilinguals -- CHAPTER 15 The Special Educational Needs, Assessment and Testing of Bilinguals -- CHAPTER 16 Deaf People, Bilingualism and Bilingual Education -- CHAPTER 17 Bilingualism and Bilingual Education as a Problem, Right and Resource -- CHAPTER 18 Bilingualism and Bilingual Education: Ideology, Identity and Empowerment -- CHAPTER 19 Bilingualism in the Modern World -- Bibliography -- Index

2021-12-22