Bilingualism, Education and Identity

Edited by Bob Morris Jones and Paul Singh Ghuman

pp xiv267 1995 paperback
ISBN 0-7083-1288-8

This volume analyses and discusses various facets of bilingualism from an international perspective. The topics covered include the relationship of bilingualism and intelligence, the social and geographical bases of bilingualism, acculturation, and lexical development. But it is the field of bilingual education which supplies the main area of interest with papers on school systems in Wales, Australia and Nigeria: the discussions here examine linguistic aspects of curricular design, language teaching methodology, and assessment.

Readership: Researchers and university students in the fields of bilingualism and multiculturalism. The interdisciplinary nature of the volume will appeal to psychologists, sociologists and human geographers, educationists and teachers, linguists and sociolinguists.

Contents

• J.L.W. and Bilingualism
  • Emeritus Professor J.E. Caerwyn Williams (Honorary Consulting Editor, Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales)
• Schools and Speech Communities in a Bilingual Setting
  • Bob Morris Jones (Senior Research Associate, Department of Education, University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
• The Effects of L2 Education on L1/L2 Development
  • Professor Carl Dodson (Formerly Head of Department of Education, University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
• Bilingual Education and Assessment
  • Professor Colin Baker (Department of Education, University of Wales, Bangor)
• Psychology and Bilingual Education: Intelligence Tests and the Influence of Pedagogy
  • Dr. Wynford Bellin (Lecturer, Department of Education, University of Wales, Cardiff)
• Questions Concerning the Development of Bilingual Wales
  • Professor Colin H. Williams (Department of Welsh, University of Wales, Cardiff)
• Acculturation, Ethnic Identity and Community Languages: A Study of Indo-Canadian Adolescents
  • Paul Ghuman (Lecturer in Education, University of Wales, Aberystwyth)
• Aspects of Bilingual Education in Australia
  • Dr. J.A.W. Caldwell & Mr M.J. Berthold (Faculty of Education, University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia)
• Aspects of Bilingual Education in Nigeria
  • Professor Adebisi Afolayan (Department of Education, Abalemi Awolowo University, Ife Ife, Nigeria)
• Jac L. Williams & Ysgogwr Addysg Gymraeg: portread personol
  • Dr D. Gareth Edwards (Department of Education, University of Wales, Aberystwyth)

Editors: Bob Morris Jones is Senior Research Associate and Paul Ghuman is Senior Lecturer in the Education Department, University of Wales, Aberystwyth.