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Bilingual and Multilingual Education in the 21st Century: Building on Experience
C Abello-Contesse
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Paperback. This book includes the work of 20 specialists working in various educational contexts around the world to create comprehensive and multidimensional coverage of current bilingual initiatives. Themes covered include issues in language use in classrooms; participant perspectives on bilingual education experiences. Editor(s): Abello-Contesse, Christian; Chandler, Paul M.; Lopez-Jimenez, Maria Dolores. Series: Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CFDM; JNFR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 158 x 19. Weight in Grams: 534.
Bilingual education is one of the fastest growing disciplines within applied linguistics. This book includes the work of 20 specialists working in various educational contexts across Europe, Latin America and North America to create a volume which is both comprehensive in scope and multidimensional in its coverage of current bilingual initiatives. The central themes of this volume, which draws on past experiences of bilingual education, include issues in language use in classrooms at elementary, secondary and tertiary levels; participant perspectives on bilingual education experiences; and the language needs of bi- and multilingual students in monolingual schools. This collection will be ... Read more
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Publisher
Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
Condition
New
Weight
534g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783090693
SKU
V9781783090693
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99-15
About C Abello-Contesse
Christian Abello-Contesse is Associate Professor at the Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, where he teaches courses in second language acquisition, foreign-language teaching methodology, bilingualism and multilingualism, bilingual education and intercultural communication. Paul M. Chandler is Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department of Languages and Literatures of Europe and the Americas at the University of Hawaii at ... Read more
Reviews for Bilingual and Multilingual Education in the 21st Century: Building on Experience
The editors of this book have done a brilliant job: bringing together a team of international specialists in bilingual and multilingual education, ranging from primary to tertiary education, and having them focus on theoretical and practical issues. This book is a must-read for researchers, teachers and education officials!
Jean-Marc Dewaele, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Thought-provoking, insightful, updated collection ... Read more
Jean-Marc Dewaele, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Thought-provoking, insightful, updated collection ... Read more