Author: Verma
Publisher: Multilingual Matter
Keywords: bilingual, bilingualism, education, child, working
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2005-08-08
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 1853592935
ISBN-13: 9781853592935

This book focuses on the primary school education of bilingual children in Britain. Topics discussed include: pedagogical issues - such as analyzing children’s spoken and written English; practical matters - such as helping children settle down in a new environment; and issues relating to the National Curriculum - such as assessment and practical suggestions.

Author: Kathryn Lindholm-Leary
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Keywords: education, bilingualism, bilingual, dual, language
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2001-07-16
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 1853595314
ISBN-13: 9781853595318

Dual language education is a program that combines language minority and language majority students for instruction through two languages. This book provides the conceptual background for the program and discusses major implementation issues. Research findings summarize language proficiency and achievement outcomes from 8000 students at 20 schools, along with teacher and parent attitudes.

Author: Aneta Pavlenko
Publisher: Multilingual Matter
Keywords: bilingual, education, bilingualism, approaches, interdisciplinary, mental, lexicon
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-01-15
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 1847691250
ISBN-13: 9781847691255

How are words organized in the bilingual mind? How are they linked to concepts? How do bi- and multilinguals process words in their multiple languages? Contributions to this volume offer up-to-date answers to these questions and provide a detailed introduction to interdisciplinary approaches used to investigate the bilingual lexicon.

Author: Jim Cummi
Publisher: Multilingual Matter
Keywords: bilingual, education, bilingualism, crossfire, children, pedagogy, language, power
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2000-10-16
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1853594733
ISBN-13: 9781853594731

As linguistic diversity increases in countries around the world, policy-makers and educators are faced with complex and conflictual issues regarding appropriate ways of educating a multilingual school population. This volume reviews the research and theory relating to instruction and assessment of bilingual pupils, focusing not only on issues of language learning and teaching but also the ways in which power relations in the wider society affect patterns of teacher-pupil interaction in the classroom.

Author: Linda Thompson
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Keywords: bilingual, bilingualism, education, nursery, learners, school
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1999-12-24
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 1853594539
ISBN-13: 9781853594533

This book presents the findings of an ethnolinguistic study of the language and social behaviour of a group of three-year-old British-born children from families of settled migrants who speak languages other than English in their homes and communities. The study draws from a number of research disciplines, including linguistics, anthropology and ethnography to provide an analytical description of the social and linguistic behaviour of the children during their first term in kindergarten. Although the study was located in the UK, the findings have implications for children in other societies wh

Author: Irene Koshik
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: questions, studies, bilingualism, interaction, everyday, assertive, rhetorical
Number of Pages: 193
Published: 2005-05
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9027226261
ISBN-13: 9789027226266

Authors:Richard Mills, Jean Mills,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: teachers, volume, handbook, school, primary, bilingualism
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1993-05-13
List price: $53.95
ISBN-10: 0415088615
ISBN-13: 9780415088619

Over the past few years bilingualism has come to be seen not as a hinderance to assimiliation but as an asset which, properly nurtured, will benefit children’s linguistic awareness, cultural sensitivity and cognitive functioning. Bilingualism in the Primary Classroom gives primary teachers a window on the experience of the bilingual children in their care and by doing so helps them to make the most of what the children and their parents have to offer as well as giving them a good start in the National Curriculum. Many of the contributors to the book are themselves bilingual and are thus