Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Paperback by Baker, Coli...

Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Paperback by Baker, Colin; Wright, Wayne E., ISBN 1788929888, ISBN-13 9781788929882, Brand New, Free shipping in the USThis textbook explains the foundations of bilingual education, bilingualism, and multilingualism. It covers definitions and key concepts, the measurement of bilingualism, languages and society, language endangerment and revitalization, the early and later development of bilingualism, theories of bilingualism and the curriculum, and bilingualism, cognition, and the brain; aspects of bilingual and multilingual education, including its history in the US, types of education for bilingual students, education for bilingualism and biliteracy, the effectiveness of bilingual education, effective schools and classrooms, the support and assessment of special needs and exceptional bilingual students, and literacy, biliteracy, and multiliteracies for bilingual and multilingual students; and political and cultural aspects. Revised and updated, this edition has a new chapter on deaf-signing people, bilingualism/multilingualism, and bilingual education; recent demographics and other statistical data; recent developments in and the limitations of brain imaging research; and expanded discussion of topics like codeswitching, translanguaging, translingualism, biliteracy, multiliteracies, metalinguistic and morphological awareness, superdiversity, raciolinguistics, anti-racist education, critical post-structural sociolinguistics, language variation, motivation, age effects, power, and neoliberal ideologies. It also discusses recent policy developments, technology and language learning on the internet and apps, and multilingual language use on the internet and social media, and it adds new global examples of research, policy, and practice beyond Europe and North America. Distributed in the US by National Book Network. Annotation ©2021 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()