Bilingualism through Schooling
Bilingualism through Schooling

Author: Arnulfo G. Ramirez

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1985-06-30

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1438416822

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Bilingualism Through Schooling is a comprehensive survey of bilingual education. It shows how bilingual schooling can have a double impact by providing students with functional second-language competence, and also contributing to their deeper understanding of culture and history. Concerned with both ethnolinguistic minority children and majority, English-speaking pupils, the book approaches bilingualism from a variety of perspectives—linguistic, psychological, and socio-cultural. Among the many topics discussed are: goals and consequences of bilingualism, sociolinguistic contexts, language attitudes, and proficiency assessment. Ramirez explores the various types of programs and techniques used to facilitate second-language acquisition and also provides guidelines for the preparation and certification of bilingual instructors. Bibliographies are included.

Language Variation and Contact-Induced Change
Language Variation and Contact-Induced Change

Author: Jeremy King

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2018-03-15

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9027264554

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This collection of original contributions dealing with Hispanic contact linguistics covers an array of Spanish dialects distributed across North, South, and Central America, the Caribbean, the Iberian Peninsula, and the Bosporus. It deals with both native and non-native varieties of the language, and includes both synchronic and diachronic studies. The volume addresses, and challenges, current theoretical assumptions on the nature of language variation and contact-induced change through empirically-based linguistic research. The sustained contact between Spanish and other languages in different parts of the world has given rise to a wide number of changes in the language, which are driven by a concomitance of different linguistic and social processes. This collection of articles provides new insight into such phenomena across the Spanish-speaking world.

Language and Woman's Place
Language and Woman's Place

Author: Robin Tolmach Lakoff

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 0195167589

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Widely recognized as having inaugurated feminist research on the relationship between gender and language, this revised edition includes an introduction and annotations by the author in which she reflects on some of the most widely discussed issues it raises.