A unique feature of this book is that chapters favor that line of cognitive linguistics which makes a clear distinction between real world and projected world. Information conveyed by language must be about the projected world. Both the experimental results and the systematic claims in this volume call for a weak form of whorfianism. Also, chapters add some relatively unexplored issues of bilingualism to the well-known ones, such as gender systems in the bilingual mind, context and task, synergic concepts, blending, the relationship between lexical categorization and ontological categorization among others.
This work provides a comprehensive introduction to bilingualism and bilingual education. Written as an introductory text from a cross-disciplinary perspective, the book contains 20 chapters covering individual and societal concepts in minority and majority languages. The third edition contains updated references and the latest research findings. Major changes for the third edition are added new topics: recent changes in bilingual education in the United States; language loss in the world; trilingualism; recent debates on effective bilingual eduction; more on the politics of bilingual education; immersion education experiences outside Canda; biligualism in the economy; bilingualism and the information communications; and technology revolution.
introduces students to key issues and themes that include bilingual development and education; and the integration of social and cognitive perspectives
uses tasks and examples to equip the reader with the necessary skills and insights to assess and interpret research drawn from bilingual populations
incorporates case studies drawn from a range of countries such as the United States, South Africa, the Netherlands, Morocco and the People's Republic of China
gathers together influential readings from key names in the discipline, including: Fred Genesee, Richard Bourhis, Elizabeth Peal, Wallace Lambert, Merrill Swain , Jim Cummins, and Ellen Bialystok.
Multilingual Classroom Ecologies: Inter-relationships, Interactions and Ideologies
Added by: lucius5 | Karma: 1660.85 | Non-Fiction, Linguistics, Other | 19 April 2009
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The theme of this book is the multilingual classroom and the inter- relationships, interactions and ideologies that pertain in such classrooms. Drawing on studies from different multilingual communities in different parts of the world, the volume demonstrates the complex nature of the multilingual classroom from an ecological perspective.
Based on the highly acclaimed and award-winning Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, this volume will provide an edited collection of almost 400 articles throughout which a representative subset of the world's major languages are unfolded and explained in up-to-date terminology and authoritative interpretation, by the leading scholars in linguistics.
