Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

Colin Baker author Wayne E Wright author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Multilingual Matters

Published:8th Mar '21

£119.95

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7th edition of the world's leading textbook on bilingual education and bilingualism

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.

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 and multilingualism at individual, group and societal levels. Updates to the new edition include: 

  • Thoroughly updated chapters with over 500 new citations of the latest research.
  • Six chapters with new titles to better reflect their updated content.
  • A new Chapter 16 on Deaf-Signing People, Bilingualism/Multilingualism, and Bilingual Education.
  • The latest demographics and other statistical data.
  • Recent developments in and limitations of brain imaging research.
  • An expanded discussion of key topics including multilingual education, codeswitching, translanguaging, translingualism, biliteracy, multiliteracies, metalinguistic and morphological awareness, superdiversity, raciolinguistics, anti-racist education, critical post-structural sociolinguistics, language variation, motivation, age effects, power, and neoliberal ideologies.
  • Recent US policy developments including the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Seal of Biliteracy, Proposition 58, LOOK Act, Native American Languages Preservation Act, and state English proficiency standards and assessments consortia (WIDA, ELPA21).
  • New global examples of research, policy, and practice beyond Europe and North America.
  • Technology and language learning on the internet and via mobile apps, and multilingual language use on the internet and in social media.

Students and Instructors will benefit from updated chapter features including:

  • New bolded key terms corresponding to a comprehensive glossary
  • Recommended readings and online resources
  • Discussion questions and study activities
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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, UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics, UK *

With this edition, Foundations is uplifted to new heights, considering bilingual education not only from the theoretical and practical cornerstones on which it rests, but also from the stature it has reached. The intergenerational scholarly lenses of Baker and Wright produce here a most lucid vision of the possibilities of bilingual education when centered on people and communities.

* Ofelia García, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA *
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, Stanford University, USA *

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.

-- Margarita Huerta, Texas A&M University, USA * Teachers College Record, September 2021 *

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.

-- Andrew Jocuns, Assumption University, USA * LINGUIST List 33.20

ISBN: 9781788929899

Dimensions: 246mm x 178mm x 31mm

Weight: 1176g

552 pages

7th edition