Bilingualism and language pedagogy

Informationen zum Autor Janina Brutt-Griffler is on the graduate faculty at the University of York, where she directs the MA programme in TESOL. She is the author of World English: A Study of its Development and has published extensively in several journals. Her scholarship bridges the fields of English studies, second language acquisition, language policy and bilingualism. Manka M. Varghese is currently Assistant Professor in the College of Education at the University of Washington. She received her PhD in Educational Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2000. Her area of specialisation is language teacher education and identity. Klappentext This book brings an understanding of language as a social practice, and bilingualism as the study of bidirectional transitioning, to the examination of bilingual settings in the US, Europe and developing countries. The volume suggests that language pedagogy needs to reflect new understandings of bilinguals.

Product details

• Authors: j varghese Brutt griffler
• Assisted by: Janina Brutt-Griffler (Editor), Manka Varghese (Editor), Manka M. Varghese (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues US
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.11.2004
• EAN: 9781853597558
• ISBN: 978-1-85359-755-8
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 245 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Bilingual Education and Biling; Bilingual Education & Bilingua; Bilingual Education and Biling
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures