Issues in International Bilingual Education The Role of the Vernacular

CHRISTINA BRAIT PAULSTON There is an important difference between merely experimental and genuine experiment. The one may be a feeling for novelty, the other is rationally based on experience seeking a better way. - Frank Lloyd Wright Wright was talking about architecture, but the same difference ca...

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Other Authors: Hartford, Beverly (Editor), Valdman, Albert (Editor), Foster, Charles R. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 1982, 1982
Edition:1st ed. 1982
Series:Topics in Language and Linguistics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Bilingualism and the Vernacular
  • The Bilingual’s Linguistic Repertoire
  • Cognitive Development in Bilingual Environments
  • Immersion Education: Applicability for Nonvernacular Teaching to Vernacular Speakers
  • Evaluation and Testing in Vernacular Languages
  • Third World Vernacular/Bi-Multilingual Curricula Issues
  • Educational Reform and the Instrumentalization of the Vernacular in Haiti
  • The Richford Experience: French Bilingual Education as a ‘Basic’ Approach to Language Competence
  • The Role of the Vernacular in Transitional Bilingual Education
  • Teacher Training for Bilingual Education: An International Perspective
  • The Cajun French Debate in Louisiana
  • The Status of Languages in Europe
  • Education for Separatism: The Belgian Experience
  • American Bilingualism: The Need for a National Language Policy
  • Issues in Bilingualism: A View to the Future
  • References
  • Index A: Languages and Language Communities
  • Index B: Authors and Subjects