Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

by Colin Baker, Wayne E. Wright

Overview

The seventh edition of this bestselling textbook has been extensively 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781788929882
Publisher:	Channel View Publications
Publication date:	03/08/2021
Series:	Bilingual Education & Bilingualism , #127
Edition description:	7th Edition
Pages:	552
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Colin Baker is Emeritus Professor at Bangor University, UK. He is the author of over 140 research publications, a best-selling book for parents of bilingual children and an encyclopedia, all on the subject of bilingualism, as well as the six 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.

Wayne E. Wright is an Associate Dean, Professor, and the Barbara I. Cook Chair of Literacy and Language 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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction ix

1 Bilingualism and Multilingualism: Definitions and Distinctions 1

2 The Measurement of Bilingualism 20

3 Languages in Society 43

4 Language Endangerment and Revitalization 72

5 The Early Development of Bilingualism 94

6 The Later Development of Bilingualism 119

7 Bilingualism, Cognition and the Brain (updated by Becky H. Huang) 142

8 Theories of Bilingualism and the Curriculum 167

9 Historical Introduction to Bilingual Education in the United States 180

10 Types of Education for Bilingual Students 208

11 Education for Bilingualism and Biliteracy 226

12 The Effectiveness of Bilingual Education 258

13 Effective Schools and Classrooms for Bilingual Students 290

14 Literacy, Biliteracy and Multiliteracies for Bilingual and Multilingual Students 323

15 Support and Assessment of Special Needs and Exceptional Bilingual Students 349

16 Deaf-Signing People, Bilingualism/Multilingualism and Bilingual Education (by Jean E Andrews and Stephen M. Nover) 371

17 Bilingualism and Bilingual Education as a Problem, Right and Resource 392

18 Bilingualism and Bilingual Education: Ideology, Identity and Empowerment 413

19 Bilingualism in the Modern World 429

Glossary 453

Bibliography 465

Index 516

Editorial Reviews

Baker and Wright’s 7th edition of this seminal work in bilingualism is a must read and must use for any researcher considering bilingualism or bilingual education as research objects. The book contains well argued, well informed, and well researched topics that bilingual researchers have at their disposal in one coherent volume.

LINGUIST List 33.2008 - Andrew Jocuns

This seventh edition does an excellent job of presenting current theory and research on both bilingualism and bilingual education. It engages with perspectives that are now central to our understanding of languaging and details the evolution of the field's thinking about various previously unquestioned views about language.

Guadalupe Valdés

The 7th edition of Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism accomplishes its purpose of providing a comprehensive overview of topics related to bilingual education and bilingualism [...] the suggested further readings and resources at the end of each of the chapters are excellent tools and activities to spark a balanced and critical class discussion on the topics presented.

Teachers College Record, September 2021 - Margarita Huerta

This seventh edition does an excellent job of presenting current theory and research on both bilingualism and bilingual education. It engages with perspectives that are now central to our understanding of languaging and details the evolution of the field's thinking about various previously unquestioned views about language.

Guadalupe Valdés

Baker (education, U. of Wales at Bangor) presents a comprehensive textbook on bilingualism at individual, group and national levels which covers major issues and controversies about language minorities and bilingual education. The third edition includes minor changes (updates of references, additions of research findings) plus the addition of new and more thoroughly covered topics. These include changes in bilingual education in the U.S.; Dual Language schools; California and Proposition 227; economic advantages of bilingual education; language loss in the world and endangered languages; the politics of language testing, and more. Written for an international audience, and intended to introduce students to a positive world of bilingualism and bilingual education. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism” by Colin Baker, has become a classic in the field and has been updated and released in a fourth edition. The text offers a wealth of information for graduate students and researchers wishing to be kept up-to-date with current topics and controversies in the field. This text continues to be an excellent source for introducing students to the field of bilingualism and bilingual education. This text remains among the best in presenting a wealth of key information in a very accessible format. This text will continue to be the standard-bearer on the topics of bilingualism and bilingual education.

Michael D. Pasquale 17.2533

As I was reading Chapter One, I started to think about how I teach and what kind of
teacher I am in the classroom… am I really meeting the needs of all my students?

Teachers College Record, 2018 - Patty Foley

How could the most comprehensive book on bilingual education get even better? The master of writing on bilingual education, Baker, collaborates with a younger master, Wright. The blending of the clear voices of these two scholars, grounded in experience in different geographical regions is powerful. This new edition keeps what has made this book a classic in the bilingual education field, and enlarges it. It presents a vision of the present and future of bilingual education, without dismissing the understandings that we have built across the years.

Ofelia García

Over the last few years as I have watched my Spanish for Native Speaker program dissolve into almost nothing... I have honestly felt like I had no ground to stand on because I could not articulate to our building leaders the academic value and educational and social benefits that my program provides our Spanish-speaking population at our school… Now, however, in reading Chapter Ten in Baker and Wright, about the types of bilingual education, I will be advocating for my students and presenting my administration with facts and evidence about how my program promotes additive bilingualism.

Teachers College Record, 2018 - Heather Wimmer

We highly recommend this book for instructors looking for the most comprehensive treatment of this topic. While we supplemented each week’s readings with articles to offer students some examples of research, the text itself shares so many rich examples from the field that it hardly requires supplementation.

Teachers College Record, 2018 - Deborah K. Palmer and Kimberly A. Strong

This fourth edition combines a vast updated overview of recent developments in the field of bilingualism, which are solidly anchored in the basic concepts necessary for an understanding of major issues. Integrating and balancing many perspectives from varied disciplines the book is clear, highly readable, provocative but not polemical. No better comprehensive introduction to the ever-expanding research on bilingualism exists. 

Professor Hugo Baetens Beardsmore

The new edition keeps this classic most up-to-date at a time when the world needs critical approaches to the education of bilingual and minoritized learners more than ever. The inclusion of the latest cutting-edge research and the discussion of new policy initiatives provide a rich learning resource and open up venues for further studies. It is a model text that really lives up to its high reputation.

Li Wei

I remain awed by Baker's ability to represent all positions and include all viewpoints, while remaining simple and straightforward. It is its scholarly exhaustiveness and complexity, coupled with a simplicity of style, that makes this text invaluable for students and scholars alike.

Ofelia Garcia

This seventh edition does an excellent job of presenting current theory and research on both bilingualism and bilingual education. It engages with perspectives that are now central to our understanding of languaging and details the evolution of the field's thinking about various previously unquestioned views about language.

Guadalupe Valdes

Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism” by Colin Baker, has become a classic in the field and has been updated and released in a fourth edition. The text offers a wealth of information for graduate students and researchers wishing to be kept up-to-date with current topics and controversies in the field. This text continues to be an excellent source for introducing students to the field of bilingualism and bilingual education. This text remains among the best in presenting a wealth of key information in a very accessible format. This text will continue to be the standard-bearer on the topics of bilingualism and bilingual education.

Linguist List 17.2533 - Michael D. Pasquale

I remain awed by Baker's ability to represent all positions and include all viewpoints, while remaining simple and straightforward. It is its scholarly exhaustiveness and complexity, coupled with a simplicity of style, that makes this text invaluable for students and scholars alike.

Ofelia García