Volume 79 in Bilingual Education and Bilingualism series.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Bilingualism: Definitions and Distinctions

2. The Measurement of Bilingualism

3. Endangered Languages: Planning and Revitalization

4. Languages in Society

5. The Early Development of Bilingualism

6. The Later Development of Bilingualism

7. Bilingualism and Cognition (updated by Panos Athanasopoulos)

8. Cognitive Theories of Bilingualism and the Curriculum

9. Historical Introduction to Bilingual Education: The United States (updated by Wayne Wright)

10. Types of Bilingual Education

11. Education for Bilingualism and Biliteracy

12. The Effectiveness of Bilingual Education

13. Effective Schools and Classrooms for Bilingual Students

14. Literacy, Biliteracy and Multiliteracies for Bilinguals

15. The Special Educational Needs, Assessment and Testing of Bilinguals

16. Deaf People, Bilingualism and Bilingual Education

17. Bilingualism and Bilingual Education as a Problem, Right and Resource

18. Bilingualism and Bilingual Education: Ideology, Identity and Empowerment

19. Bilingualism in the Modern World

"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." (Book Cover)