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This volume contains interdisciplinary essays on bilingual education in various countries of the world. Some contributions deal with policy and curricular issues with regard to minority and majority language, some consider the enrichment aspect of bilingual education. Others focus on language maintenance and revitalization, still others look at ways in which bilingual education could stabilize the functions of the societal languages. All contributions support bilingualism in society and consider how bilingual education could promote that goal. A special section is devoted to US policies and politics
This volume contains interdisciplinary essays on bilingual education in various countries of the world. Some contributions deal with policy and curricular issues with regard to minority and majority language, some consider the enrichment aspect of bilingual education. Others focus on language mai...
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Mahendra Kumar Mishra
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June 30, 2020
an authentic book on bilingual education by Ofelia Gracia. There is a clarity of the term bilingual education developper over last 50 years. The practices and research on bilingual education in different countries have been taken place in this book. The models of bilingual education, school curriculum and teachers education, first and second language acquisition along with the concept of translamguaging have been discussed in this book.The author has made this book with her 40 years of research. A worth reading book for academicians and students for research. Mahendra Kumar Mishra, india
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