Textbook
Bilingualism, 2nd EditionISBN: 978-0-631-19539-9
Paperback
402 pages
January 1995, ©1994, Wiley-Blackwell
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- examines bilingualism as both a societal and cognitive phenomenon
- explores various aspects of bilingual behavior, such as code switching and language mixing, in terms of neurolinguistic organization in the individual speaker
- assesses the positive and negative claims made for the effects of bilingualism on children's cognitive, social and academic development, and examines the assumptions behind various language policies and programs for bilingual children
- updated throughout to incorporate recent work in this fast developing field