The fourth edition of this best-selling book provides a comprehensive introduction to bilingualism and bilingual education. Written as an introductory text from a cross-disciplinary perspective, 19 chapters cover individual and societal issues in minority and majority languages.
The fourth edition of this best-selling book provides a comprehensive introduction to bilingualism and bilingual education. Written as an introductory text from a cross-disciplinary perspective, 19 chapters cover individual and societal issues in minority and majority languages.
I remain awed by Baker's ability to represent all positions and include all viewpoints, while remaining simple and straightforward. It is its scholarly exhaustiveness and complexity, coupled with a simplicity of style, that makes this text invaluable for students and scholars alike.
-- Ofelia Garcia, Teachers College, Colombia UniversityThis fourth edition combines a vast updated overview of recent developments in the field of bilingualism, which are solidly anchored in the basic concepts necessary for an understanding of major issues. Integrating and balancing many perspectives from varied disciplines the book is clear, highly readable, provocative but not polemical. No better comprehensive introduction to the ever-expanding research on bilingualism exists.
-- Professor Hugo Baetens Beardsmore, Universite Libre de Bruxelles"Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism" by Colin Baker, has become a classic in the field and has been updated and released in a fourth edition. The text offers a wealth of information for graduate students and researchers wishing to be kept up-to-date with current topics and controversies in the field. This text continues to be an excellent source for introducing students to the field of bilingualism and bilingual education. This text remains among the best in presenting a wealth of key information in a very accessible format. This text will continue to be the standard-bearer on the topics of bilingualism and bilingual education.
-- Michael D. Pasquale, Cornerstone University * Linguist List 17.2533 *Colin Baker holds a Personal Chair of the University of Wales, and teaches in the School of Education at the University of Wales, Bangor. Some of his previously published books with Multilingual Matters include: Attitudes and Language (1992), a Parents' and Teachers' Guide to Bilingualism (second edition in 2000), the Encyclopedia of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education (1998 - with Sylvia Prys Jones) and The Care and Education of Young Bilinguals (2000). The previous editions of this book were published in 1993,1996 and 2001.
Chapter 1: Bilingualism: Definitions and Distinctions
Chapter 2: The Measurement of Bilingualism
Chapter 3: Endangered Languages: Planning and Revitalization
Chapter 4: Languages in Society
Chapter 5: The Early Development of Bilingualism
Chapter 6: The Later Development of Bilingualism
Chapter 7: Bilingualism and Cognition
Chapter 8: Cognitive Theories of Bilingualism and the Curriculum
Chapter 9: Historical Introduction to Bilingual Education: the United States
Chapter 10: Types of Bilingual Education
Chapter 11: Education for Bilingualism and Biliteracy
Chapter 12: The Effectiveness of Bilingual Education
Chapter 13: Effective Schools and Classrooms for Bilingual Students
Chapter 14: Literacy, Biliteracy and Multiliteracies for Bilinguals
Chapter 15: The Assessment and Special Educational Needs of Bilinguals
Chapter 16: Deaf People, Bilingualism and Bilingual Education
Chapter 17: Bilingualism and Bilingual Education as a Problem, Right and Resource
Chapter 18: Bilingualism and Bilingual Education: Ideology, Identity and Empowerment
Chapter 19: Bilingualism in the Modern World