The Handbook of Bilingual and Multilingual Education presents the first comprehensive international reference work of the latest policies, practices, and theories related to the dynamic interdisciplinary field of bilingual and multilingual education.
* Represents the first comprehensive reference work that covers bilingual, multilingual, and multicultural educational policies and practices around the world
* Features contributions from 78 established and emerging international scholars
* Offers extensive coverage in sixteen chapters of language and education issues in specific and diverse regional/geographic contexts, including South Africa, Mexico, Latvia, Cambodia, Japan, and Texas
* Covers pedagogical issues such as language assessment as well as offering evolving perspectives on the needs of specific learner populations, such as ELLs, learners with language impairments, and bilingual education outside of the classroom
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Dedication
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Introduction
1 Key Concepts and Issues in Bilingual and Multilingual Education
Section 1: Foundations for Bilingual and Multilingual Education
2 Egalitarian Bi/Mutilingualism and Trans-semiotizing in a Global World
3 Bilingualism and Creativity: An Educational Perspective
4 Language Acquisition in Bilingual Education
5 Literacy in Bilingual and Multilingual Education
6 Culture in Bilingual and Multilingual Education: Conflict, Struggle, and Power
7 A Synthesis of Research on Bilingual and Multilingual Education
8 Researching Bilingual and Multilingual Education Multilingually: A Linguistic Ethnography
9 Intersections of Language Ideology, Power, and Identity: Bilingual Education and Indigenous Language Revitalization in French Polynesia
10 Language Policy and Planning in Education
11 Language Rights
Section 2: Pedagogical Issues and Practices in Bilingual and Multilingual Education
Practices and Pedagogies for Bilingualism and Multilingualism
12 Programs and Structures in Bilingual and Multilingual Education
13 Translanguaging, Bilingualism and Bilingual Education
14 Multiliteracy, Pedagogies and Academic Literacy
15 Language Assessment: Past to Present Misuses and Future Possibilities
16 Teacher Education and Support
17 Parent and Community Involvement in Bilingual and Multilingual Education
School Levels and Special Populations
18 Early Childhood Education and Dual Language Learners
19 Primary School Bilingual Education: Pedagogical Issues and Practices
20 Secondary Bilingual Education: Cutting the Gordian Knot
21 Bi/Multilingual Higher Education: Perspectives and Practices
22 Bilingual Education and Students with Dis/Abilities & Exceptionalities
23 Bilingual Deaf Education
24 Bilingual-Multilingual Education and Indigenous Peoples
25 Non-Formal Bilingual Education
Section 3: Global Dimensions of Bilingual and Multilingual Education
26 A Dual Language Revolution in the United States? On the Bumpy Road from Compensatory to Enrichment Education for Bilingual Children in Texas
27 Global Dimensions of Bilingual and Multilingual Education: Canada
28 Minority Languages, State Languages and English in European Education
29 Contested Notions of Bilingualism and Trilingualism in the People’s Republic of China
30 Bilingual Education in Japan: Slow but Steady Progress
31 Breaking the Façade of Linguistic and Cultural Homogeneity: Education for Multicultural Children in South Korea
32 Striving for Education for All through Bilingual Education in Cambodia
33 Bilingual and Multilingual Education in Brunei and Malaysia: Policy and Practices
34 Multilingual Education in South Asia: The Burden of the Double Divide
35 ‘Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth’: Tension and Conflict Between Language Institutions in South Africa
36 A Panoramic View of Bilingual Education in Sub-Saharan Africa: Re-orienting the Lens for the Future
37 Language Education in Mexico: Access, Equity, and Ideology
38 Indigenous Youth and Adult Education in Latin America
39 Multilingual Education across Oceania
40 Language, Conflict, and Social Change: Arabic Bilingual Education in the Middle East and North Africa
41 Bilingual and Multilingual Education in the Former Soviet Republics: The Case of Lativa
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Wayne E. Wright is Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, Professor, and Barbara I. Cook Chair of Literacy and Language in the College of Education at Purdue University. He is Co-Editor of the Journal of Language, Identity and Education, and Editor of the Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement. His most recent books are the 6th edition of Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (with Colin Baker, 2017), and the 2nd edition of Foundations for Teaching English Language Learners: Research, Theory, Policy, & Practice (2015).
Sovicheth Boun is Assistant Professor of ESL and Literacy in the Department of Secondary and Higher Education at Salem State University. His research interests include bi-/multilingual education and policies (in both Cambodia and the U.S.), language ideologies, language teacher identities, and K-12 schooling experiences of Southeast Asian American students.
Ofelia García is Professor in the Ph.D. programs in Urban Education and Hispanic and Luso Brazilian Literatures and Languages at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has been Professor of Bilingual Education at Columbia University’s Teachers College, and at The City College of New York; and has been Dean of the School of Education at the Brooklyn Campus of Long Island University. García has published widely in the areas of sociology of language, language policy, bilingualism, and bilingual education. She is the General Editor of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language and the co-editor of Language Policy (with H. Kelly-Holmes).