Bilingualism & Multilingualism

This collection brings together global perspectives which critically examine the ways in which language as a resource is used and managed in myriad...

Detailing qualitative research undertaken with elementary-grade children in a Korean heritage language school in the U.S., this text provides uniqu...

This state-of-the-science handbook offers a comprehensive discussion of input processing in second language acquisition. The volume assesses past a...

This book focuses on literary multilingualism and specifically on the challenging condition of writing in Trieste, a key European borderland locate...

An increasing number of U.S. Latinos are seeking to become more proficient in Spanish. The Spanish they may have been exposed to in childhood may n...

Aside from the occasional controversy over "Official English" campaigns, language remains the blind spot in the debate over multiculturalism. Consi...

This book investigates the use of performative language pedagogy in working with refugees and migrants, exploring performative language teaching as...

This book sets a high standard for rigor and scientific approach to the study of bilingualism and provides new insights regarding the critical issu...

How do learners manage to communicate when their command of a language is limited?. The techniques and approximations they use are known as communi...

Since it was first published in 1989, Suzanne Romaine's book has been recognized as the most authoritative introduction to the sociolinguistics of ...

Constructions of Intersubjectivity shows that the meaning of grammatical constructions often has more to do with the human cognitive capacity for t...

Bilingual Education in the 21st Century examines languages and bilingualism as individual and societal phenomena, presents program types, variables...

This book provides explanations for the emergence of contact languages, especially pidgins and creoles. It assesses the current state of research a...

Even though more than half the world's population is bilingual, the study of bilinguals has lagged behind that of monolinguals. With this book, whi...

Nationalism informs our ideas about language, culture, identity, nation, and State-ideas that are being challenged by globalization and an emerging...

Nationalism informs our ideas about language, culture, identity, nation, and State-ideas that are being challenged by globalization and an emerging...

Studies of bilingual behavior have been proliferating for decades, yet short shrift has been given to its major manifestation, the incorporation of...

Spanish in New York is a groundbreaking sociolinguistic analysis of immigrant bilingualism in a U.S. setting. Drawing on one of the largest corpora...

Spanish in New York is a groundbreaking sociolinguistic analysis of immigrant bilingualism in a U.S. setting. Drawing on one of the largest corpora...

This book is a practical, comprehensive tool for busy teachers or educators teaching English pronunciation. Brown puts pronunciation into perspecti...