The book is designed as a comprehensive introduction to bilingual education for instructors, researchers and students and a companion to Foundations of Bilingual Educationa nd Bilingualism. It will fulfil the needs of teacher education and the preparation and professional development of bilingual teachers. Bilingual education at classroom, school and community levels are explored from a contemporary and international perspective.
The readings are divided into four sections:
Section 1: Varieties of Bilingual Education
Section 2: History, Policy and Politics of...
The book is designed as a comprehensive introduction to bilingual education for instructors, researchers and students and a companion to Foundation...
Like the first volume, The Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity, Volume 2 is a reference work on the interconnection between language and ethnic identity. In this volume, 37 new essays provide a systematic look at different language and ethnic identity efforts, assess their relative successes and failures, and place the cases on a success-failure continuum. The reasons for these failures and successes and the linguistic, social, and political contexts involved are subtle and highly complex. Some of these factors have to do with whether the language is considered a dialect, as in...
Like the first volume, The Handbook of Language and Ethnic Identity, Volume 2 is a reference work on the interconnection between language and...
This book explores bilingual community education, specifically the educational spaces shaped and organized by American ethnolinguistic communities for their children in the multilingual city of New York. Employing a rich variety of case studies which highlight the importance of the ethnolinguistic community in bilingual education, this collection examines the various structures that these communities use to educate their children as bilingual Americans. In doing so, it highlights the efforts and activism of these communities and what bilingual community education really means in today's...
This book explores bilingual community education, specifically the educational spaces shaped and organized by American ethnolinguistic communities ...
This book addresses how the new linguistic concept of 'Translanguaging' has contributed to our understandings of language, bilingualism and education, with potential to transform not only semiotic systems and speaker subjectivities, but also social structures.
This book addresses how the new linguistic concept of 'Translanguaging' has contributed to our understandings of language, bilingualism and education,...
