Encyclopedia of Bilingualism and Bilingual EducationColin Baker, Sylvia Prys Jones 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. |
Contents
Acknowledgements | 5 |
Languages of Wider Communication | 122 |
The Advantages and Disadvantages of Bilingualism | 140 |
Balanced Bilinguals | 150 |
Bilingualism and the Family | 186 |
Types of Bilingual Family | 195 |
The Development of Bilingualism in Children | 203 |
Language Marketing | 221 |
Introduction | 555 |
Africa | 563 |
Caribbean | 570 |
Europe | 582 |
The Development of Biliteracy | 607 |
The Aims of Bilingual Education | 614 |
A Bilingual Education Model | 624 |
Weak Forms of Bilingual Education | 633 |
Bilingualism and Thinking | 228 |
Translation and Interpretation | 234 |
Religion and Bilingualism | 245 |
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Thresholds Theory | 276 |
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Bilingualism and the Brain | 296 |
Language and Nationalism | 327 |
Conflict and Equilibrium | 333 |
Second Language Learning in Education | 344 |
The Question of Languages in the European Union | 545 |
Bilingual Nursery Education | 642 |
Immersion Bilingual Education | 649 |
Ten Dimensions of Classroom Language Learning | 665 |
The Communicative Approach | 673 |
Different Modern Language Teaching | 681 |
Adult Language Learning | 688 |
Language Maintenance Bilingual Education | 703 |
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