The eighth edition of Wayne Wright and Colin Baker's comprehensive text for the field of bilingual education and bilingualism has arrived! This new edition offers updated references and topics throughout, along with fully revised and expanded treatments of bilingualism and the brain (by Huang) and Deaf bilingualism (by Andrews & Nover). Start with this text if you need an introduction to nearly every topic in our field. After a balanced and rigorously cited discussion in every chapter, you’ll find references to further readings and resources, engaging discussion questions, and relevant activities.

Deborah Palmer, University of Colorado Boulder, USA

<p>The eighth edition of Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism remains an indispensable resource for understanding the theories, policies, and issues surrounding bilingualism and education on a global scale. With expanded content and contemporary insights, this edition provides critical perspectives for students and scholars seeking a deeper understanding of these complex topics.</p>

Maite T. Sánchez, Hunter College, The City University of New York, USA

For over 30 years I have been privileged to watch how this classic text has relied on its own foundations to build new and up-to-date understandings of bilingual/multilingual people and their education. This edition is not simply an update; it opens up new ways of perceiving different individual, sociolinguistic, sociopolitical and socioeducational realities marked by differences in power, status, race, gender, as well as language. Following Baker, Wright provides readers with a forward-looking and holistic understanding of bilingual education, providing readers with multiple interpretive lenses to meaningfully educate bilingual learners.

Ofelia García, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA

The eighth edition of this bestselling textbook has been revised and updated to provide a comprehensive and accessible introduction to bilingualism and bilingual education in an everchanging world. Written in a compact and clear style, the book covers all the crucial issues in bilingualism and multilingualism at individual, group and societal levels. Updates to the new edition include: 

  • Updated chapters with over 500 new citations and the latest demographic and statistical information.
  • An expanded Chapter 16 on Deaf-Signing People, Bilingualism/Multilingualism and Bilingual Education, to give readers a thorough grounding in the history of Deaf bilingual education, and in the latest research.
  • Several new, or more thoroughly covered, topics including: national, local, family and individual language policy; dynamic bilingualism; multimodal communication; translanguaging and translanguaging pedagogy; raciolinguistics and anti-racist education; language revival and revitalization; translanguaging among Deaf-signing students; the hybrid, constructed, complex and fluid nature of identity; the gentrification of bilingual education; bilingualism and economic inequalities and advantages; mobile apps and social media; technology-enhanced language proficiency assessments; artificial intelligence (AI); recent developments in and limitations of brain imaging research; and multilingualism on the internet and in information technology.
  • Important policy developments in the US context are covered, including the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the Seal of Biliteracy, the Science of Reading (structured literacy), response to intervention, and state consortia for shared English language proficiency standards and assessments (WIDA, ELPA21), and for alternative assessments for disabled students (Dynamic Learning Maps), the US Census, Proposition 58 (California), the LOOK Act (Massachusetts), Arizona Senate Bill 1014 and the Native American Languages Preservation Act.
  • Attention has also been given to expanded discussion of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and its use across Europe and around the world. Efforts have also been made to update and diversify the global examples of research, policy and practice, with a particular focus on adding examples outside of Europe and North America.

 

Students and Instructors will benefit from chapter features including:

  • New bolded key terms corresponding to a comprehensive glossary.
  • Recommended readings and online resources.
  • Discussion questions and study activities.
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The eighth edition of this bestselling textbook has been revised and updated to provide a comprehensive and accessible introduction to bilingualism and bilingual education in an everchanging world. Written in a compact and clear style, the book covers all the crucial issues in bilingualism at individual, group and societal levels.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction

Chapter 1. Bilingualism and Multilingualism: Definitions and Distinctions                

Chapter 2. The Measurement of Bilingualism                                             

Chapter 3. Languages in Society                                         

Chapter 4. Language Endangerment and Revitalization                           

Chapter 5. The Early Development of Bilingualism                                        

Chapter 6. The Later Development of Bilingualism                          

Chapter 7. Bilingualism, Cognition and the Brain (updated by Becky H. Huang)     

Chapter 8. Theories of Bilingualism and the Curriculum                                        

Chapter 9. Historical Introduction to Bilingual Education in the United States        

Chapter 10. Types of Education for Bilingual Students                                      

Chapter 11. Education for Bilingualism and Biliteracy                              

Chapter 12. The Effectiveness of Bilingual Education                            

Chapter 13. Effective Schools and Classrooms for Bilingual Students                 

Chapter 14. Literacy, Biliteracy and Multiliteracies for Bilingual and Multilingual Students

Chapter 15. Support and Assessment of Special Needs and Exceptional Bilingual Students                             

Chapter 16. Deaf-Signing People, Bilingualism/Multilingualism and Bilingual Education (by Jean F. Andrews and Stephen M. Nover)                          

Chapter 17. Bilingualism and Bilingual Education as a Problem, Right and Resource

Chapter 18. Bilingualism and Bilingual Education: Ideology, Identity and Empowerment

Chapter 19. Bilingualism in the Modern World

Glossary
Bibliography
Index   

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<p>8th edition of the world’s leading textbook on bilingual education and bilingualism</p>

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781836680543
Publisert
2025-05-13
Utgave
8. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Multilingual Matters
Høyde
246 mm
Bredde
178 mm
Dybde
33 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, UU, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
608

Biographical note

Wayne E. Wright is an Associate Dean, Professor, and the Barbara I. Cook Chair of Literacy and Language in the College of Education at Purdue University, USA. He has over 100 research publications and is the author of a bestselling book on teaching English language learners. He is the co-editor of the Journal of Language, Identity, and Education and co-editor of the Bilingual Education and Bilingualism book series for Multilingual Matters.

Colin Baker is Emeritus Professor at Bangor University, UK. He is the author of over 140 research publications, a bestselling book for parents of bilingual children and an encyclopedia, all on the subject of bilingualism, as well as the seven previous editions of this textbook. He is the former co-editor of the Bilingual Education and Bilingualism book series for Multilingual Matters and was editor of the International Journal of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education for 15 years.