Bilingualism Beyond Basic Principles

by Dewaele, Jean-Marc; Housen, Alex; Li, Wei

• ISBN13: 9781853596254
• ISBN10: 1853596256
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-05
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Summary

The nine original papers in this volume have been written by international experts and deal with individual bilingualism, societal and educational phenomena, addressing issues such as bilingual usage, acquisition, teaching, and language planning and policy. The volume’s major asset lies in its diversity of topics and in the range of languages and geographical regions covered. The perspective adopted is multidisciplinary, including linguistics, sociolinguistics, psychology, and applied linguistics.

Author Biography

Jean-Marc Dewaele obtained his PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel under the supervision of Hugo Baetens Beardsmore. He is Senior Lecturer in French Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has published widely on psychological, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and linguistic aspects of foreign language production.Alex Housen obtained his PhD from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel under the supervision of Hugo Baetens Beardsmore. He is currently a Research Fellow of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (Flanders). His research interests include bilingualism, bilingual education, second/foreign language acquisition and language education. He has worked as a consultant on bilingual education for the Soros Foundation, the United Nations Development Programme and the Belgian Ministry of Education. His publications have appeared in various collected volumes and journals.Li Wei received his MA and PhD from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, where he is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Head of the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences. His research interests include bilingualism and cross-cultural pragmatics. He is Editor of the International Journal of Bilingualism.

Table of Contents

Preface
Contributors
Introduction and Overview	p. 1
Who is Afraid of Bilingualism?	p. 10
The Importance of Being Bilingual	p. 28
Towards a More Language-centred Approach to Plurilingualism	p. 43
Bilingual Education: Basic Principles	p. 56
Bilingual Encounters in the Classroom	p. 67
Language Planning: A Grounded Approach	p. 88
Accepting Bilingualism as a Language Policy: An Unfolding Southeast Asian Story	p. 112
Markets, Hierarchies and Networks in Language Maintenance and Language Shift	p. 128
The Imagined Learner of Malay	p. 141
Code-switching and Unbalanced Bilingualism	p. 174
Code-switching: Evidence of Both Flexibility and Rigidity in Language	p. 189
Rethinking Bilingual Acquisition	p. 204
Laudatio: Hugo Baetens Beardsmore - No Hyphen Please!	p. 229
Index	p. 233
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