Bilingual Education in the 21st Century: A Global Perspective

Ofelia García

John Wiley & Sons, Sep 9, 2011 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 496 pages

Bilingual Education in the 21st Century examines languages and bilingualism as individual and societal phenomena, presents program types, variables, and policies in bilingual education, and concludes by looking at practices, especially pedagogies and assessments. This thought-provoking work is an ideal textbook for future teachers as well as providing a fresh view of the subject for school administrators and policy makers.

• Provides an overview of bilingual education theories and practices throughout the world
• Extends traditional conceptions of bilingualism and bilingual education to include global and local concerns in the 21st century
• Questions assumptions regarding language, bilingualism and bilingual education, and proposes a new theoretical framework and alternative views of teaching and assessment practices
• Reviews international bilingual education policies, with separate chapters dedicated to US and EU language policy in education
• Gives reasons why bilingual education is good for all children throughout the world, and presents cases of how this is being carried out

Contents

• Introducing Bilingual Education: 3
• 1 Differences between Bilingual Education: 7
• 2 Sociohistorical and Sociolinguistic Orientations: 17
• Languaging and Education: 21
• 1 Internet World Users by Language: 28
• Bilingualism and Translanguaging: 42
• 1 Subtractive Bilingualism: 51
• 1 Models of Bilingualism: 55
• 2 Language Abilities: 61
• 5 Separate Underlying ProficiencyCommon: 69
• The Sociopolitics of Bilingualism: 73
• 1 Independence vs Interdependence in Language Planning: 87
• Benefits of Bilingualism: 93
• 1 Relationship between Language and Culture: 101
• Frameworks and Types: 111
• 1 Bilingual Education Models According to Hornberger 1991 Contextual and Structural Characteristics According to: 113
• 1 Subtractive Bilingual Education Theoretical Framework: 116
• 3 Theoretical Frameworks of Bilingual Education: 120
• 5 Type of Bilingualism and Type of Bilingual: 131
• 5 Children and Bilingual Education Types: 132
• Factors and Variables: 137
• 1 MacroFactors and Interdependent Variables for BE Policies: 138
• U S Language Policy in Education: 159
• 1 States that Have Adopted English Only Laws: 174
• 6 Increase of Immigrant Population per State 19902000: 180
• 1 Timeline of Bilingual Education Policy in the United States: 193
• Language Promotion by European Supranational Institutions: 197
• Monoglossic Bilingual Education Policy: 218
• Heteroglossic Bilingual Education Policy: 244
• Bilingualism in the Curriculum: 289
• Bilingual Education Pedagogy and Practices: 312
• 1 Cognitive Demands and Contextual Support: 330
• Biliteracy Practices and Pedagogy: 337
• 1 Continua of Biliteracy: 341
• 7 Transaction with Written Texts: 353
• 8 Emphasis of Reading Activities with Emergent: 360
• Assessment of Bilinguals: 366
• Conclusion: 383
• Myths and Realities: 390
• Bibliography: 410
• Author Index: 459
• Subject Index: 466

About the author

Ofelia García is Professor of Urban Education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has been Professor of Bilingual Education at Columbia University's Teachers College, and at The City College of New York; and has been Dean of the School of Education in the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University. Among her publications are Imagining Multilingual Schools (with T. Skutnabb-Kangas and M. Torres-Guzmán), A Reader in Bilingual Education (with C. Baker), Language Loyalty, Continuity and Change: Joshua Fishman's Contributions to International Sociolinguistics (with Rakhmiel Peltz and Harold Schiffman), and The Multilingual Apple: Languages in New York City (with J.A. Fishman). She is a Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) in South Africa, and has been a Fulbright Scholar, and a Spencer Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Education.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Bilingual Education in the 21st Century: A Global Perspective
• Author: Ofelia García
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2011
• ISBN: 1444359789, 9781444359787
• Length: 496 pages
• Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General