Handbook of Bilingual and Multilingual Education
The Handbook of Bilingual and Multilingual Education presents the first comprehensive international reference work of the latest policies, practices, and theories related to the dynamic interdisciplinary field of bilingual and multilingual education.
- Represents the first comprehensive reference work that covers bilingual, multilingual, and multicultural educational policies and practices around the world
- Features contributions from 78 established and emerging international scholars
- Offers extensive coverage in sixteen chapters of language and education issues in specific and diverse regional/geographic contexts, including South Africa, Mexico, Latvia, Cambodia, Japan, and Texas
- Covers pedagogical issues such as language assessment as well as offering evolving perspectives on the needs of specific learner populations, such as ELLs, learners with language impairments, and bilingual education outside of the classroom
Wayne E. Wright is Professor and Barbara I. Cook Chair of Literacy and Language in the College of Education at Purdue University. He is Editor of the Journal of Southeast Asian American Education and Advancement and Book Review Editor of the International Multilingual Research Journal. His most recent book is Foundations of Teaching English Language Learners: Research, Theory, Policy, & Practice (2nd ed., 2015).
Sovicheth Boun is Assistant Professor of ESL and Literacy in the Department of Secondary and Higher Education at Salem State University. His research interests include bi-/multilingual education and policies (in both Cambodia and the U.S.), language ideologies, language teacher identities, and K-12 schooling experiences of Southeast Asian American students. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Language, Identity, and Education.
Ofelia García is Professor of Urban Education and Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her most recent books include Translanguaging: Language, Bilingualism and Education (with Li Wei, 2014), and Bilingual Community Education and Multilingualism: Beyond Heritage Languages in a Global City (with Zakharia & Otcu, 2013). She is Associate General Editor of The International Journal of the Sociology of Language.