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.
 

Contents

Acknowledgements
5
Language and Nationalism
10
Languages of Wider Communication
122
The Advantages and Disadvantages of Bilingualism
142
Balanced Bilinguals
150
Bilingualism and the Family
186
Types of Bilingual Family
195
The Development of Bilingualism in Children
203
LANGUAGES IN CONTACT
550
Africa
563
Caribbean
570
Europe
582
The Development of Biliteracy
607
The Aims of Bilingual Education
614
A Bilingual Education Model
624
Weak Forms of Bilingual Education
633

Language Marketing
221
Bilingualism and Thinking
228
Translation and Interpretation
234
Religion and Bilingualism
245
Language Strategies for Business
258
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269
Thresholds Theory
276
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287
Bilingualism and the Brain
296
The Question of Languages in the European Union
339
Second Language Learning in Education
344
Bilingual Nursery Education
642
Immersion Bilingual Education
649
Ten Dimensions of Classroom Language Learning
665
The Communicative Approach
674
Different Modern Language Teaching
681
Adult Language Learning
688
Language Maintenance Bilingual Education
703
The Measurement of Bilingualism
713
Dual Language Schools
717
Dual Majority Language Bilingual Education
751
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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. He is the former co-editor of the Bilingual Education and Bilingualism books series for Multilingual Matters.

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