Handbook of Bilingual and Multilingual Education (eBook)

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).

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