Opportunities and Challenges of Bilingualism 1st Edition by Li Wei, Jean Marc Dewaele, Alex Housen ISBN 3110852004 9783110852004

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ISBN 10: 3110852004

ISBN 13: 9783110852004

Author:  Li Wei, Jean-Marc Dewaele, Alex Housen 

Opportunities and Challenges of Bilingualism 1st Edition: This volume contributes to the debates about the social aspects of bilingualism, focusing on the various opportunities and challenges bilingualism presents to today’s society. The contributions in this volume are of a prospective stance, delineating directions for future research on bilingualism and/or identifying important issues which have been under-researched or which are still of a controversial nature. All the contributions are from leading international scholars who have researched and published extensively in the field of bilingualism. To facilitate further discussions of the issues raised in the volume, there are study questions and suggested reading attached to each of the main chapters. 

 

Opportunities and Challenges of Bilingualism 1st Edition Table of contents:

I. Theoretical Frameworks

• “Holy languages” in the context of societal bilingualism
• Forlorn hope?
• When languages disappear, are bilingual education or human rights a cure? Two scenarios
• Core values and nation-states

II. Bilingualism Worldwide

• French language policy: centrism, Orwellian dirigisme, or economic determinism?
• The non-linearity of language maintenance and language shift: survey data from European language boundaries
• Language shift among Siberian Estonians: pro and contra
• On attitudes towards Croatian dialects and on their changing status
• Ethnolects – between bilingualism and urban dialect
• The development of Navajo-English bilingualism
• Language ideology, ownership and maintenance: the discourse of the Academia Mayor de la Lengua Quechua
• Xhosa as a “home appliance”? A case study of language shift in Grahamstown
• Japan’s nascent multilingualism

III. Multilingual Management and Education

• Managing multilingualism in Singapore
• Managing languages at bilingual universities: relationships between universities and their language policies
• Using descriptive inquiry to transform the education of linguistically diverse US teachers and students

 

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