Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

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Multilingual Matters, Feb 22, 2017 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 598 pages

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.

 

Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Definitions and Distinctions
The Measurement of Bilingualism
Planning and Revitalization
Languages in Society
The Early Development of Bilingualism
The Later Development of Bilingualism
Education for Bilingualism and Biliteracy
The Effectiveness of Bilingual Education
Effective Schools and Classrooms for Bilingual Students
Literacy Biliteracy and Multiliteracies for Bilinguals
Support and Assessment of Special Needs and Exceptional Bilingual Students
Deaf People Bilingualism and Bilingual Education
Bilingualism and Bilingual Education as a Problem Right and Resource
Ideology Identity and Empowerment

Bilingualism Cognition and the Brain updated by Becky H Huang
Theories of Bilingualism and the Curriculum
The United States
Types of Bilingual Education
Bilingualism in the Modern World
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Other editions - View all

Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
Colin Baker,Wayne E. Wright
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Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism: 6th Edition
Colin Baker,Wayne E. Wright
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Common terms and phrases

academic achievement American areas assessment assimilation Bialystok bilingual and multilingual bilingual children Bilingual Education Act bilingual programs bilingual schools bilingual students biliteracy Chapter child classroom codeswitching cognitive context countries curriculum deaf students different languages diglossia dominant economic effective ELLs endangered languages English proficiency English-only ethnic example foreign language forms of bilingual García global heritage language home language identity immersion bilingual education immigrants individual instruction integration language acquisition language and culture language community language death language development language e.g. language education language learning language minority children language minority students language planning language proficiency language revitalization language rights language skills language speakers Latino literacy mainstream majority mass media minority language monolingual multilingual education outcomes parents political reading second language second language acquisition sign language social society Spanish speak special education status studies suggests teachers teaching tend translanguaging understanding

About the author (2017)

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. He is the former co-editor of the Bilingual Education and Bilingualism books series for Multilingual Matters.

Wayne E. Wright is Professor and Barbara I. Cook Chair of Literacy and Language, Purdue University, USA. He has published extensively on bilingual education and bilingualism, and is the co-editor of the Journal of Language, Identity, and Education and the Bilingual Education and Bilingualism book series for Multilingual Matters.

Bibliographic information

TitleFoundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
Volume 106 of Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
AuthorsColin Baker, Wayne E. Wright
Edition6, revised
PublisherMultilingual Matters, 2017
ISBN178309723X, 9781783097234
Length598 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Education / Multicultural Education
Education / Special Education / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
  
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