Encyclopedia of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education

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Colin Baker, Sylvia Prys Jones
Multilingual Matters, 1998 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 758 pages
This encyclopedia is divided into three sections: individual bilingualism; bilingualism in society and bilingual education. It includes many pictures, graphs, maps and diagrams. The book concludes with a comprehensive bibliography on bilingualism.
 

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Contents

The Advantages and Disadvantages of Bilingualism 3 Two Views of Bilinguals Two Halves or One Whole?
9
Balanced Bilinguals
12
Double Semilingualism
14
Prestigious Bilingualism
15
Multilingualism
17
Personality Social Development Identity and Bilingualism 9 12 14 15 17 150 164 170 174
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Types of Bilingual Family
28
The Development of Bilingualism in Children
36
Bilingualism and Marriage
44
Bibliography 708
82
Mother Tongue
152
Language Maintenance
181
Language Revival and Reversal
186
Two Cases of Language Revival Maori and Hebrew
195
Language Planning
203
Language Standardization
206
Linguistic Purism
217
Language Marketing 181 186 195 203 210 217 47
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Bilingualism and Sensitivity in Communication 3 Codeswitching 51 54 58 Bilingualism in the Modern World 1 Information Technology and Bilingu...
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Bilingualism and the Internet
231
Translation and Interpretation
234
Religion and Bilingualism
245
Bilingualism and the Economy
250
Language Strategies for Business
258
Bilingual Professions
263
Bilingualism and the Mass Media
269
Bilingualism and Tourism Bilingualism and Thinking 1 Bilingualism and Intelligence 2 Bilingualism and Creative Thinking 3 Field Dependency and ...
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Bilingualism and the Brain 62
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The Assimilation of Language Minorities 3 Integration and Language Minorities 4 Multiculturalism
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Visits and Exchanges to Other Countries
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A Critical Awareness of Language
633
Learning
642
Language Acquisition
651
Ten Dimensions of Classroom Language Learning 2 Foreign and Second Language Learning
665
Foreign and Second Language Teaching Approaches
670
The Communicative Approach
673
Different Modern Language Teaching Approaches
681
The Cultural Syllabus and the Multidimensional Language Curriculum
683
Modern Language Learning and Special Educational Needs Students
685
Adult Language Learning
688
The Ulpan Experience From Israel to Wales and the Basque Country
693
Index
697
Strong Forms of Bilingual Education
701
Dual Language Schools
712
International Schools
718
Major World Languages 6 Hispanics in the United States
720
World Englishes
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Measuring Bilinguals 2 Bilingual Proficiency
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Page 129 - The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists...
Page 281 - Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.
Page 281 - The development of respect for the child's parents, his or her own cultural identity, language and values, for the national values of the country in which the child is living, the country from which he or she may originate, and for civilizations different from his or her own...
Page 279 - States should take appropriate measures so that, wherever possible, persons belonging to minorities may have adequate opportunities to learn their mother tongue or to have instruction in their mother tongue.
Page 115 - It is an indispensable part of American policy that the coming generation of American citizens in Puerto Rico grow up with complete facility in the English tongue. It is the language of our nation. Only through the acquisition of this language will Puerto Rican Americans secure a better understanding of American ideals and principles.
Page 279 - In those States in which ethnic, religious or linguistic minorities exist, persons belonging to such minorities shall not be denied the right, in community with the other members of their group, to enjoy their own culture, to profess and practice their own religion, or to use their own language.
Page 279 - Programmes of cooperation and assistance among States should be planned and implemented with due regard for the legitimate interests of persons belonging to minorities.
Page 293 - American institutions ... any man who comes here ... must adopt the institutions of the United States, and therefore, he must adopt the language which is now the native tongue of our people, no matter what the several strains in our blood may be. It would not be merely a misfortune, but a crime to perpetuate differences of language in this country...
Page 246 - Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews." Many of the Jews read this inscription, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek. Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write, "The King of the Jews,' but, 'This man said, I am King of the Jews.

About the author (1998)

Colin Baker is Emeritus Professor at Bangor University, UK. He is the author of research publications, books for parents and an encyclopedia, all on the subject of bilingualism, as well as the 5 previous editions of this textbook.nbsp;He is the former co-editor of thenbsp;Bilingual Education and Bilingualism books series for Multilingual Matters.

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