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Author : Gary M. Jones,A. Conrad K. Ozóg
Publisher : Multilingual Matters Limited
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015032817713
The majority of cases in this book lean towards those countries which view bilingualism as a positive, sometimes necessary, feature of national development.
Author : Annick De Houwer
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847696304
Increasingly, children grow up hearing two languages from birth. This introductory textbook shows how children learn to understand and speak those languages against the backdrop of their language learning environments. A narrative around the bilingual development of four young children with different language profiles helps to explain the latest research findings in a lively and accessible manner. The narrative describes how bilingually raised children learn to understand and use sounds, words and sentences in two languages, and how they are able to use each of their languages in socially appropriate ways. Positive attitudes towards bilingual development from the people in bilingual children's environments and their recognition that child bilingualism is not monolingualism-times-two are the main ingredients ensuring that children grow up to be happy and expert speakers of two languages.
Author : Sammy Beban Chumbow
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781789232264
Research in the area of bilingualism and multilingualism invariably produces fascinating insights. In the Europe of yesteryears, the paradigm of one nation one language was dominant and fashionable as a nation-building ideology that multilingualism was considered a curse, a demon that had to be exorcised. Today, the avalanche of empirical evidence of research findings has established multilingualism and pluralism as an ideal for national development. The nine chapters of this book provide further elucidations of the issue of benefits of bilingualism and multilingualism and also provide original research findings on developments in the areas of psychological dimensions of bilingualism and bilingualism in information retrieval systems. The book by its illuminating description and insightful analysis of issues of bilingualism will be of significant interest to scholars, researchers, and all concerned with bilingualism and multilingualism from whatever perspective.
Author : Eve Haque
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442640788
"From the time of its inception in Canada, multiculturalism has generated varied reactions, none more starkly than between French and English Canadians. In this groundbreaking new work, Eve Haque examines the Government of Canada's attempt to forge a national policy of unity based on 'multiculturalism within a bilingual framework, ' a formulation that emerged out of the Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism (1963-70). Uncovering how the policies of bilingualism and multiculturalism are inextricably linked, Haque investigates the ways in which they operate together as part of our contemporary national narrative to favour the language and culture of Canada's two 'founding nations' at the expense of other groups. Haque uses previously overlooked archival material, including transcripts of royal commission hearings, memos, and reports, to reveal the conflicts underlying the emergence of this ostensibly seamless policy. By integrating two important areas of scholarly concern -- the evolution and articulation of language rights in Canada, and the history of multiculturalism in the country, Haque provides powerful insight into ongoing asymmetries between Canada's various cultural and linguistic groups."--Publisher's website.
Author : Jean-Marc Dewaele,Alex Housen,Li Wei
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847699237
The publication of Hugo Baetens Beardsmore’s book Bilingualism: Basic Principles by Multilingual Matters in 1982 coincided with an unprecedented upsurge of interest in bilingualism. A major reason for this was the acknowledgement that bilingualism is far more common than was previously thought, and perhaps even the norm. The number of bilinguals at the turn of the third millennium is probably greater than ever before and will continue to grow as a result of the combined forces of globalisation, automatisation, increased mobility and migration, and modernisation of foreign language teaching. The contributions in this book prove that, given the right conditions, bilingualism can confer distinct benefits like intellectual, psychological, social, cultural and economic improvement on the individual. The papers in this volume have been written by leading scholars in the field of bilingualism and deal with individual bilingualism, societal and educational phenomena, addressing issues such as bilingual usage, acquisition, teaching, and language planning and policy. The volume’s major asset lies in its diversity, not only in depth of investigation and in topical variety but also in the range of languages and geographical regions covered. Another important feature of the volume is its multidisciplinary perspective. Among the contributors are linguists, sociologists, psychologists and sociolinguists.
Author : Novia Carter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015019763641
Author : Janina Brutt-Griffler
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1853595772
This text traces the history of English language spread from the 18th to the beginning of the 21st century, combining that with a study of its langauge change. It links linguistic and sociolinguistic variables that have conditioned the evolution and change of English, putting forward a new framework of language spread and change.
Author : Charlotte Hoffmann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317887652
An Introduction to Bilingualism provides a comprehensive review of the most important aspects of individual and societal bilingualism, examining both theoretcial and practical issues. At the level of the individual, it addresses such questios as: What is involved in the study of bilingual children? What are the patterns of bilingual language acquisition? In which ways do the language competence and the speech of bilinguals differ from those of monolinguals? Topics that sometimes arouse controversy are explored - such as the question of whether there is a relationship between bilingualsim and a child's cognitive, psychological and social development. The book is also concerned with multilingualism, that is, bilingualsim as a societal phenomenon. It focuses on such issues as language choice in bilingual and multilingual communities, national identity and the education of bilinguals. The inclusion of several case studies of European linguistic minorities serves to exemplify the topics dealt with at the theoretical level and to illustrate the linguistic complexities found in contemporary Europe.
Author : Ellen Bialystok
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001-04-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521635071
Describes how intellectual development of bilingual children differs from that of monolingual children.
Author : Colin Baker
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781847695086
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 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
Author : Anthony Liddicoat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111285594
Covers aspects of bilingual education such as the effect on children's educational performance when learning in two languages, social questions raised by bilingual education and organisational concerns. Includes references.
Author : Eugène John Brière
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Bilingualism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032326022
The publication brings together the latest thinking in five areas important to bilingual education. Part one, legal aspects, deals with limitations and capabilities of the judicial process, interpretations of major court decisions, and implications of these decisions in terms of community members, educators, and school boards. Philosophies, discussed in part two, encompasses the need for philosophical diversity to account for the needs of marked and unmarked population differences, clarification of philosophical disagreements, and suggests bilingual education will contribute to the assimilation process rather than to cultural and linguistic pluralism. The third part deals with social factors: sociology of language, ethnography of speaking, and pragmatics of natural languages; ethnographic monitoring, and bilingualism and biculturalism in education. Part four covers language and content in bilingual education: language acquisition and language learning in late-entry programs, a Canadian bilingual education program, curriculum development in L1 and L2 in a maintenance program, and curriculum/language contexts. Part five, assessment, encompasses: problems in assessment of the effect of language education policies in a multilingual society; language dominance and pedagogical considerations; and criteria to assess Spanish reading instructional materials. The last section describes the activities of the National Network of Centers for Bilingual Education. (AH)
Author : Peggy D. McCardle,Erika Hoff
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781853598692
This book contains reports of research on bilingualism in infants and children as well as perspectives from those involved in cross-linguistic research on language development, literacy development in bilingual children, and psycholinguistic research on bilingualism in adults. It offers a fresh multidisciplinary perspective and next steps for research on childhood bilingualism.
Author : M. Heller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230596047
Arguing against a common sense view of bilingualism as the co-existence of two linguistic systems, this volume develops a critical perspective which approaches bilingualism as a wide variety of sets of sociolinguistic practices connected to the construction of social difference and of social inequality under specific historical conditions.
Author : Anne-Marie De Mejía
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 185359590X
This book describes a particular type of educational provision referred to as 'elite' or 'prestigious' bilingual education, which caters mainly for upwardly mobile, highly educated, higher socio-economic status learners of two or more internationally useful languages. The development of different types of elite bilingual or multilingual educational provision is discussed and an argument is made for the need to study bilingual education in majority as well as in minority contexts.