Bilingualism

Jean-Marc Dewaele obtained his PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel under the supervision of Hugo Baetens Beardsmore. He is Senior Lecturer in French Applied Linguistics at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has published widely on psychological, psycholinguistic, sociolinguistic and linguistic aspects of foreign language production.

This book deals with individual bilingualism, societal and educational phenomena and addressing issues such as bilingual usage, acquisition, teaching, and language planning and policy. The volume's major asset lies in its diversity of topics and in the range of languages and geographical regions covered.

Preface - Mike Grover Introduction - Jean-Marc Dewaele (Birkbeck College, University of London) Alex Housen, (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) & Li Wei, (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) 1. Who is afraid of bilingualism? - Hugo Baetens Beardsmore (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) 2. The importance of being bilingual - John Edwards (St Francis Xavier University) 3. Towards a more language-centered approach to plurilingualism - Michael Clyne (University of Melbourne) 4. Bilingual Education: Basic Principles - Jim Cummins (OISE, University of Toronto) 5. Accepting Bilingualism as a Language Policy - Gary M. Jones (University Brunei Darussalam) 6. Markets, Hierarchies and Networks in Language Maintenance and Language Shift Li Wei, (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) and Lesley Milroy (University of Michigan) 7. The imagined learner of Malay - Anthea Fraser Gupta (University of Leeds) 8. Code-switching and unbalanced bilingualism - Georges Ludi (University of Basle) 9. Codeswitching: Evidence of Both Flexibility and Rigidity in Language - Carol Myers-Scotton (University of South Carolina) 10: Rethinking bilingual acquisition - Fred Genesee (McGill University) Laudatio: Hugo Baetens Beardsmore-no hyphen please - Eric Lee (Institut Superieur de Traduction et d'Interpretariat, Brussels)