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- Features a multi-dimensional approach toward bilingualism issuer (linguistic/psycholinguistic, socio-linguistic, and neurocognitive approaches)
- Includes investigation of spoken and written bilingualism
- Unique focus on biliteracy, tri-literacy and diglossia
Part of the book series: Literacy Studies (LITS, volume 5)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Language and Literacy in Multilingual Society
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Academic Achievement of Children Coming from Immigrant Families
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Multilingual Acquisition and Processing
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About this book
As populations become more mobile, so interest grows in bi- and multilingualism, particularly in the context of education. This volume focuses on the singular situation in Israel, whose complex multiculturalism has Hebrew and Arabic as official languages, English as an academic and political language, and tongues such as Russian and Amharic spoken by immigrants.
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Presenting research on bi- and trilingualism in Israel from a multitude of perspectives, the book focuses on four aspects of multilingualism and literacy in Israel: Arabic-Hebrew bilingual education and Arabic literacy development; second-language Hebrew literacy among immigrant children; literacy in English as a second/third language; and adult bilingualism. Chapters dissect findings on immigrant youth education, language impairment in bilinguals, and neurocognitive features of bilingual language processing. Reflecting current trends, this volume integrates linguistics, sociology, education, cognitive science,and neuroscience.
Editors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Education, Department of Learning Disabilities, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
Mark Leikin
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, Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences,, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel
Mila Schwartz
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, Dept. of Foreign Literatures & Linguisti, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, Israel
Yishai Tobin
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Current Issues in Bilingualism
Book Subtitle: Cognitive and Socio-linguistic Perspectives
Editors: Mark Leikin, Mila Schwartz, Yishai Tobin
Series Title: Literacy Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2327-6
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2326-9Published: 23 November 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9928-8Published: 26 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2327-6Published: 22 November 2011
Series ISSN: 2214-000X
Series E-ISSN: 2214-0018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 266
Topics: Education, general, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics