Foundations of Bilingual Education and BilingualismThe 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 |
Contents
Definitions and Distinctions | 1 |
The Measurement of Bilingualism | 18 |
planning and revitalization | 40 |
Languages in Society | 65 |
The Early Development of Bilingualism | 92 |
The Later Development of Bilingualism | 115 |
Bilingualism and Cognition updated by panos Athanasopoulos | 138 |
Cognitive Theories of Bilingualism and the Curriculum | 163 |
The Effectiveness of Bilingual Education | 253 |
Effective Schools and Classrooms for Bilingual Students | 282 |
Literacy Biliteracy and Multiliteracies for Bilinguals | 311 |
The Special Educational Needs Assessment and Testing of Bilinguals | 338 |
Deaf people Bilingualism and Bilingual Education | 360 |
Bilingualism and Bilingual Education as a problem right and resource | 373 |
Ideology Identity and Empowerment | 389 |
Bilingualism in the Modern World | 410 |
The United States updated by Wayne Wright | 182 |
Types of Bilingual Education | 206 |
Education for Bilingualism and Biliteracy | 221 |
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