Book: Community bilingualism

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Building on Community Bilingualism
Rebecca Freeman
ISBN 0-9727507-0-3 Paperback/ 0-9727507-1-1 Hardback
Published by Caslon Publishing (www.caslonpublishing.com)

Key Features
* Explains how language planning can promote educational and social change
on the local level
* Includes an ethnographic and discourse analytic study of bilingualism and
education in one Latino community during a period of significant educational
reform
* Offers guidelines for developing programs and policies that promote
heritage language development in a range of language (Spanish, Chinese,
Russian, Khmer, Vietnamese) and education (bilingual, world language,
heritage language) contexts.

Description
Building on Community Bilingualism explains why and demonstrates how schools
that serve multilingual communities can promote English language
development, academic achievement AND expertise in community languages.
This book provides a solid review of the fields of bilingual education,
English as a second language (ESL), world/foreign language education,
heritage language education, and language policy and planning, and serves as
a guide for teachers, administrators, and researchers who are working to
address the complex language and literacy needs of students in schools
today.

Author Information
Rebecca Freeman earned her Ph.D. in sociolinguistics at Georgetown
University.  She has conducted ethnographic and discourse analytic research
on bilingualism and education in multilingual communities in the United
States since the mid 1980s.  Her first book, Bilingual Education and Social
Change (Multilingual Matters 1998), provides a case study of the successful
two-way immersion program at Oyster Bilingual School in Washington D.C.
Freeman also works in the professional development of bilingual education,
ESL, world and heritage language teachers, administrators, program
developers, and policy makers in the US and internationally.

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