Bilingualism beyond basic principles : festschrift in honour of Hugo Baetens Beardsmore

Baetens Beardsmore, Hugo. (Added Author). Dewaele, Jean-Marc, 1962- (Added Author). Housen, Alex, 1964- (Added Author). Li, Wei, 1961- (Added Author).

Summary: The nine original papers in this volume have been written by international experts and deal with individual bilingualism, societal and educational phenomena, addressing issues such as bilingual usage, acquisition, teaching, and language planning and policy.

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ISBN: 1853596310 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781853596315 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (ix, 233 p.) : ill., map.
Publisher: Clevedon ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, c2003.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Who is afraid of bilingualism? / Hugo Baetens Beardsmore -- The importance of being bilingual / John Edwards -- Towards a more language-centred approach to plurilingualism / Michael Clyne -- Bilingual education: basic principles / Jim Cummins -- Bilingual encounters in the classroom / Peter Martin -- Language planning: a grounded approach / Colin Baker -- Accepting bilingualism as a language policy: an unfolding Southeast Asian story/ Gary M. Jones -- Markets, hierarchies, and networks in language maintenance and language shift / Li Wei and Lesley Milroy -- The imagined learner of Malay / Anthea Fraser Gupta -- Code-switching and unbalanced bilingualism / Georges Lüdi -- Code-switching: evidence of both flexibility and rigidity in language / Carol Myers-Scotton -- Rethinking bilingual acquisition / Fred Genesee -- Laudatio: Hugo Baetens Beardsmore--no hyphen please! / Eric Lee.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.