Encyclopedia of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education

Colin Baker, Sylvia Prys Jones

Multilingual Matters, 1998 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 758 pages

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.

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Contents

• Language Communities: 1
• Types of Language Minority: 2
• Immigration Emigration and Language: 3
• Ethnic Identity: 4
• Diglossia: 5
• Languages of Wider Communication 96 99 104 112 117 122 Acknowledgements viii SECTION 1 INDIVIDUAL BILINGUALISM 127 133 135 14...: 6
• Language Imperialism: 8
• Two Views of Bilinguals Two Halves or One Whole?: 9
• Language and Nationalism: 10
• Conflict and Equilibrium: 11
• Balanced Bilinguals: 12
• The Question of Languages in the European Union: 13
• Double Semilingualism: 14
• Prestigious Bilingualism: 15
• Multilingualism: 17
• Personality Social Development Identity: 22
• Bilingualism: 28
• 6: 48
• 17: 57
• Bibliography 708: 82
• The Origins of Language and Language Families: 127
• The Origins of Bilingualism: 133
• Dialects and Language Boundaries: 135
• Pidgins and Creoles: 140
• Language Shift Language Decline and Language Death: 150
• Language Borrowings: 164
• Language Vitality: 170
• Attitudes to Languages 150 164 170: 174
• 22: 177
• The Development of Bilingualism in Children 3 Bilingualism and Marriage 4 Mother Tongue: 182
• Language Maintenance: 183
• Language Revival and Reversal: 186
• Two Cases of Language Revival Maori and Hebrew: 195
• Language Planning: 203
• Language Standardization: 206
• Linguistic Purism: 217
• Language Marketing 36 44 181 186 195 203 210 217: 221
• Language Choice 2 Bilingualism and Sensitivity in Communication 3 Codeswitching 51 54 58 Bilingualism in the Modern World 1 Information Tec...: 228
• Bilingualism and the Internet: 231
• Translation and Interpretation: 234
• Religion and Bilingualism: 245
• Bilingualism and the Economy: 250
• Language Strategies for Business: 258
• Bilingual Professions: 263
• Bilingualism and the Mass Media: 269
• Bilingualism and Tourism Bilingualism and Thinking 1 Bilingualism and Intelligence 2 Bilingualism and Creative Thinking 3 Field Dependency and ...: 272
• Home and School Relationships: 336
• A Brief History of Bilingual Education in the United States 2 Research on the Effectiveness of Bilingual Education 3 The Debate in the United States ...: 338
• LANGUAGES IN CONTACT IN THE WORLD 550: 345
• Africa: 346
• Bilingualism and the Brain 62: 358
• Bilingual Education for Deaf and Hearing Impaired People: 370
• Deaf and Partially Hearing Bilingual People 563: 374
• Australia and New Zealand: 385
• Caribbean: 387
• 66: 388
• Central America: 393
• 670: 395
• Europe: 398
• 74: 441
• 81: 444
• Language as a Problem a Right and a Resource: 445
• Explanations of UnderAchievement in Bilinguals: 570
• Bilingualism and Learning Difficulties 572 3 Assessment and Bilingual Children: 572
• Bilingual Special Education: 580
• Language and Speech Therapy in a Bilingual Context: 584
• Language Allocation in Bilingual Methodology: 586
• Bilingual Methodology in Welsh Classrooms: 592
• Literacy among Bilingual Students: 596
• The Development of Biliteracy 586 592 596: 607
• The Nature and Aims of Bilingual Education 2 Types of Bilingual Education 3 A Bilingual Education Model 464 469 473 Multiculturalism in Educa...: 614
• The Assimilation of Language Minorities 3 Integration and Language Minorities 4 Multiculturalism: 621
• Visits and Exchanges to Other Countries and Cultures: 624
• Language Awareness Knowledge About: 628
• Language: 630
• A Critical Awareness of Language 624 628: 633
• Ten Dimensions of Classroom Language Learning: 665
• Foreign and Second Language Learning: 667
• Foreign and Second Language Teaching Approaches: 670
• The Communicative Approach: 673
• Different Modern Language Teaching Approaches: 681
• The Cultural Syllabus and the Multidimensional Language Curriculum: 683
• Modern Language Learning and Special Educational Needs Students: 685
• Adult Language Learning: 688
• The Ulpan Experience From Israel to Wales and the Basque Country: 693
• Index: 697
• Submersion Education 2 Transitional Bilingual Education: 706
• Withdrawal Classes: 707
• 476: 717
• Major World Languages 6 Hispanics in the United States: 720
• 479: 724
• World Englishes: 727
• 287: 733
• 299: 744
• 307: 746
• 483: 749
• 637: 750
• 311: 751
• 685: 752
• Bilingual Proficiency: 754
• 86: 755
• International Schools 642 649 Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition 1 An Introduction to Second Language Acquisition 2 A Framework o...: 756
• 663: 757

About the author

Colin Baker is Emeritus Professor at Bangor University, UK. He is the author of research publications, books for parents and an encyclopedia, all on the subject of bilingualism, as well as the 5 previous editions of this textbook.nbsp;He is the former co-editor of thenbsp;Bilingual Education and Bilingualism books series for Multilingual Matters.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Encyclopedia of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education; Multilingual matters
• Editors: Colin Baker, Sylvia Prys Jones
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 1998
• ISBN: 1853593621, 9781853593628
• Length: 758 pages
• Subjects: Education / General; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General