TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baker,Colin
TI  - Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
SN  - 9781847693556 (pbk)
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Toronto, ON
PB  - Multilingual Matters
KW  - Bilingual education
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Bilingualism
N1  - 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
N2  - "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)
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