Author: Colin Baker
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1847693555
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 515

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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.

Author: Colin Baker
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1783097213
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 509

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The sixth edition of this bestselling textbook has been substantially revised and updated to provide a comprehensive introduction to bilingualism and bilingual education in the 21st century. Written in a compact and clear style, the book covers all the crucial issues in bilingualism at individual, group and societal levels. Updates to the new edition include: • Greater attention to technological advances and global trends impacting and impacted by bilingualism; • New trends and issues in bilingual education, including recent research on the effectiveness of different types of bilingual education. • Issues in the assessment of bilinguals. • The latest thinking on identity and bilingualism. • Recent developments in brain imaging research. • Discussion of the latest terms in bilingualism research including dynamic bilingualism, translanguaging, transliteracy, and superdiversity, in addition to an enhanced look at multilingualism. Students and instructors will benefit from new features including: • A comprehensive glossary • A condensed and updated bibliography. • Updated international examples of policy, research and practice • The addition of web resources and discussion questions. • Fully revised study activities and recommended reading.

Author: Colin Baker
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 185359864X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 505

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Written as an introductory text from a crossdisciplinary perspective, this book covers individual and societal concepts in minority and majority languages.

Author: Colin Baker
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1847695086
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 515

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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

Author: Colin Baker
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 9781853593628
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 776

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This encyclopedia is divided into three sections: individual bilingualism; bilingualism in society and bilingual education. It includes many pictures, graphs, maps and diagrams. The book concludes with a comprehensive bibliography on bilingualism.

Author: Ofelia García
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 9781853592669
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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A collection of pivotal papers from 1986-1993 on bilingualism and bilingual education, grouped in sections on policy and legislation, implementation of bilingual policy in schools, bilingualism in instruction, and using the bilingualism of the school community. Articles conclude with suggested student activities and discussion questions, encouraging students to take on an advocacy-oriented role. The reader can be used alone or with the publisher's Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: Jürgen Erfurt
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783631568767
Category : Education
Languages : fr
Pages : 440

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La migration et le plurilinguisme sont un défi majeur pour les systèmes éducatifs de nombreux pays : comment nos écoles peuvent-elles gérer la diversité linguistique ? Ce volume rassemble des approches théoriques et rend compte d'expériences d'apprentissage et d'enseignement plurilingues, notamment du modèle de l'immersion réciproque

Author: Anne-Marie De Mejía
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 9781853598197
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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This book presents a vision of bilingual education in six South American nations: three Andean countries, Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia, and three 'Southern Cone' countries, Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. It provides an integrated perspective, including work carried out in majority as well as minority language contexts, referring to developments in the fields of indigeneous, Deaf, and international bilingual and multilingual provision.

Author: Colin Baker
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1783091606
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 283

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In this accessible guide to bilingualism in the family and the classroom, Colin Baker delivers a realistic picture of the joys and difficulties of raising bilingual children. This revised edition includes more information on bilingualism in the digital age, and incorporates the latest research in areas such as neonatal language experience, multilingualism and language mixing.

Author: Ofelia García
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1853599077
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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The book contains a comprehensive selection of outstanding and influential articles on bilingual education in the USA and the rest of the world. It is designed for instructors and students, with questions and activities based on each of the 19 readings for students to engage in active learning.