Key Features:
Additions to the fourth edition
- The educational mainstreaming of bilingual children
- Effective practices in bilingual schools and classrooms
- The achievement gap in bilinguals
- Recent changes in bilingual education in the United States (e.g. NCLB)
- Dual Language schools
- Heritage language education
- The recent politics of bilingual education
- The spread of English as a global language
- The advantages and disadvantages of English as a second or third language
- Identity and multiple identities
- Endangered languages
- Language planning
Summary:
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.
Review:
The book is a real contribution to one of our many social problems and at the same time perfectly scholarly.
Christina Bratt Paulston, University of Pittsburgh. 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, in Linguist List 17.2533 This 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, provocativ but not polemical. No better comprehensive introduction to the ever-expanding research on bilingualism exists.
Professor Hugo Baetens Beardsmore, Universite Libre de Bruxelles 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 University
Author Biography:
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.
Readership Level:
Undergraduate/ postgraduate/ teacher education
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