Encyclopedia of Language and Education
Volume 5: Bilingual Education
1st Edition
Published on 19. November 2005
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-7923-4806-1 (ISBN)
Description
This volume provides a comprehensive account of the implementation of bilingual education programs in countries throughout the world. Bilingual programs have been implemented to achieve a variety of educational and social goals in different contexts. Some programs are intended to support the maintenance of national minority languages or to revitalize languages whose long-term survival is threatened; others aim to help recent immigrants succeed academically while making the transition to instruction taught primarily through the majority language of the society. In addition, bilingual programs have been used to teach additional languages to students from the majority or dominant language group. Similar theoretical principles underlie the development of bilingual conversational and academic skills in all these diverse contexts. For academics, graduate students, and policy-makers, this volume clearly outlines the social and educational goals that can be achieved through bilingual education. It also highlights the need to take account of the complex political context of inter-group relationships within which bilingual programs are inevitably embedded. TOC:From the Contents:1. Introduction.- Part 1: Programs for Indigenous Groups.- Part 2: Programs for National Minority Groups.- Part 3: Programs for International (Migrant) Minority Groups.- Part 4: Programs for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students.- Part 5: Programs for Dominant Language Groups.
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Edition
1., Ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
699 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7923-4806-1 (9780792348061)
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Jim Cummins | P. Corson
Bilingual Education
Book
05/1999
Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Content
Part 1 Programmes for indigenous groups; bilingual programmes involving aboriginal languages in Australia, S. Harris, B. Devlin; Maori-English bilingual education in New Zealand, A.E. Durie; bilingual education in Africa - an overview, M.A. Obondo; language in education in Kenyan schools, G. Buny; American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian bilingual education, T.L. McCarty; bilingual education for indigenous groups in Canada, C. Heimbecker; bilingual education for indigenous groups in India, L.M. Khubchandani; bilingual education in Norway, A. Balto, J. Todal; bilingual education in the South Pacific, H. Lotherington-Woloszyn. Part 2 Programmes for national minority groups: bilingual education in the Basque country, M.C. Garmendia, I. Agote; bilingual education in Slovenia, S.N. Lukanovic; bilingual education in Friesland, D. Gorter; bilingual education in Ireland, Scotland and Wales, C. Baker; Ladino-Italian bilingual programmes in Italy, P.E. Balboni; Sorb-German bilingual education, B. Hall; bilingual education in China, Dongyan Ru Blatchford; programmes for minority francophones in Canada, D. Gerin-Lajoie; bilingual education in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, Ho Wah Kam, R.Y. Wong. Part 3 Programmes for international (migrant) minority groups: bilingual education in the United States, C. Faltis; bilingual education for immigrant students in the Netherlands, S. Kroon, T. Vallen; bilingual education for immigrant groups in Australia, J. Gibbons; bilingual education for Finnish minority students in Sweden, T. Skutnabb-Kangas. Part 4 Programmes for deaf and hard-of-hearing students: deaf bilingual bicultural education, H. Gibson et al. Part 5 Programmes for dominant language groups: immersion programmes in Brunei, G.M. Jones; bilingual education in Lebanon, K.A. Shabaan; French immersion programmes in Canada, M.K. Swain; two-way bilingual education programmes in the United States, K.J. Lindholm; bilingual education in Hong Kong, A. Mei Yi Lin; Swedish immersion programmes in Finland, C. Lauren; immersion education in Catalonia, J. Arnau.