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Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781847693556 Author(s): Colin Baker Format: Paperback Year: 2011 Edition: 5th Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd Dimensions: 178 x 27 x 246 (w x l x h) Pages: 512 Series: Bilingual Education and Bilingualism Series Number: 79

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Description: The 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 multilingualtesting language abilities and language uselanguages in communities and minority groupsendangered languageslanguage planning, language revivalthe development of bilingualism in infancy and childhoodbilingualism in the familyage and language learningadult language learningbilinguals' thinking skillsbilingualism and the braintheories of bilingualismtypes of bilingual educationheritage language educationevaluations of bilingual educationminority language literacybiliteracy and multiliteracieseffective teaching and learning methods in bilingual classroomsthe effectiveness of bilingual education in the United Statesthe history of bilingual education in the United Stateslanguage minority underachievement bilingual special educationthe assessment of language minority childrenDeaf bilingualsthe spread of English as a global languagelearning English as a second or third languagelanguage identity and multiple identitiesthe politics surrounding language minorities and bilingual education*assimilation and pl