New book from Multilingual Matters - Trilingualism in Family School and Community edited by C. Hoffmann & J. Ytsma

[Kathryn King]

TRILINGUALISM IN FAMILY, SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY
Edited by Charlotte Hoffmann (University of Salford)
and Jehannes Ytsma (Fryske Akademy)

Key Features
· Sociocultural contexts described in the contributions involve three
discrete languages
· The volume takes a sociolinguistic approach to trilingualism, rather
than educational or developmental as in previous books

Description
Countries in Africa, America, Asia and Europe provide the
sociolinguistic contexts described in this volume. They involve settings
where three or more languages are spoken and where speakers are
trilingual. With the focus on family, school and the wider community,
the book illustrates personal, social, cultural and political factors
contributing to the acquisition and maintenance of trilingualism and
highlights a rich pattern of trilingual language use. 

Contents
Introduction Charlotte Hoffmann and Jehannes Ytsma
PART I: CONTEXTS OF TRILINGUALISM
1. Exploring multilingualism in cultural contexts Larissa Aronin (Haifa
University, Israel) & Muiris O'Laoire (Institute of Technology, Tralee,
Ireland); 2.Being trilingual or multilingual - is there a price to pay?
Elite Olshtain and Frieda Nissim-Amitai (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) 
PART II: MULTILINGUAL LANGUAGE USE
3. Language practices of trilingual youth in two Canadian cities
Patricia Lamarre (Universitry of Montreal) & Diane Dagenais (Simon
Fraser University, Canada);  4. Language crossing among adolescents in a
multilingual city area in Germany Gabriele Birken-Silverman (Universität
Mannheim, Germany); 5. Language ability, language use and language
attitudes of young aboriginese in Taiwan Hui-chi Lee (Mingchi Institute
of Technology, Taiwan) 
6. Trilingual input and children's language use in trilingual families
in Flanders Annick De Houwer (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
PART III: LANGUAGE POLICY AND EDUCATION
7. Creating and implementing a language policy in the Israeli
educational system Anat Stavans (Hebrew University and Bert Berl
College, Israel) &  Doron Narkis (Kaye College & Achva College, Israel);
8. Trilingualism in Guinea-Bissau and the question of instructional
language Carol Benson (Stockholm University, Sweden); 9. Trilinguals at
four in the Basque Country? Felix Etxeberria (University of the Basque
Country, Spain); 10. Teaching English as a Third Language Jasone Cenoz
(University of the Basque Country, Spain); 11. English as a L3 in
bilingual Finland Kaj Sjöholm (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)

Editor information
Charlotte Hoffmann grew up in a bilingual family in Germany and raised
her children to become trilingual. She is Reader in Sociolinguistics at
the University of Salford, UK, where she is also Associate Director of
the European Studies Research Institute. Her publications cover child
trilingualism, trilingual competence and societal multilingualism.
Jehannes Ytsma is senior researcher at the Fryske Akademy (The
Netherlands). His publications are in the fields of bi- and
trilingualism in school and society. He is currently conducting a
research project on trilingual primary education in Friesland.

Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 43 September 2003  format 210 x
148mm   c. 242 pp
Hbk ISBN 1-85359-693-0          £54.95/ US$89.95/ CAN$129.95
Pbk ISBN 1-85359-692-2          £24.95/ US$39.95/ CAN$49.95      

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