Foundations (5th ed.) of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
Colin Baker - Hardback - 512 pages - 18 Feb 2011 - Multilingual
Matters - 246 x 178 Basket: 0 item(s) Total: £0.00 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 l