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- International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism - This new journal aims to spread international developments, initiatives, ideas and research on bilingualism and bilingual education, and to ensure collaboration between different continents, allowing rapid access to up-to-date information in an easily digestible form.
- Center for Bilingual Education and Research - The Center for Bilingual Education and Research (CBER) is part of the College of Education, Arizona State University. The Center is concerned with policy analysis and scholarship in bilingual and dual-language education.
- Centre for Research on Bilingualism- Stockholm University - The Centre provides courses in bilingualism and Swedish as a second language at the undergraduate evel, and offers a full PhD program in bilingualism.
- Hoover Essay- Bilingual Education: A Critique - The evolution of the bilingual education debate from its origin in the Civil Rights Act (1964) and the Bilingual Education Act (1968).
- Bilingual Pages - a Resource for Bilingual Families - Resource for parents and others interested in raising children with more than one language.
- Opinions Vary on Studies That Back Bilingual Classes - Los Angeles Times. As the debate over bilingual education bounds toward a spring ballot initiative, two studies scheduled to be released today land on the side of teaching children in their native language first, then gradually switching to English. However, critics of bilingual education and even some supporters raised questions about the studies.
- Kids Bilingual Network - International network of bilingual families. Here you can get in contact with other bilingual families in the country you live in.
- Assessing Students' Perceptions of Biliteracy in Two-Way Bilingual Classrooms - The neglected factor in planning for bilingual teaching of reading and writing is the mindset of children regarding the development of two languages, specifically Spanish and English in bilingual programs.
- Electronic Textbook: Bilingual Education - Information on BE policy, regulations, definitions of bilingual programs, and professional programs.
- Massnews.com - Bilingual Education Troubled Program - Massachusetts has over 40,000 bilingual education students, and is one of only nine states in the US to require bilingual education in all districts where there is a sufficient number of students who are not proficient in English.
Wikipedia Articles
- Bimodal bilingualism - Bimodal bilingualism refers to an individual or community's bilingual competency in (at least) one spoken language and (at least) one signed language (spoken and signed are the "modes" to which "bimodal" refers). Bimodal bilingualism is often also referred to as d/Deaf bilingualism, but that term is somewhat misleading, as one need not be d/Deaf (culturally or audiologically) to be bimodally bilingual (for example, Children of Deaf Adults or other hearing people who learn sign language for various reasons).
- Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism - The Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism was a Canadian royal commission established on July 19, 1963, by the government of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson to "inquire into and report upon the existing state of bilingualism and biculturalism in Canada and to recommend what steps should be taken to develop the Canadian Confederation on the basis of an equal partnership between the two founding races, taking into account the contribution made by the other ethnic groups to the cultural enrichment of Canada and ...
- Sequential bilingualism - Sequential bilingualism occurs when a person becomes bilingual by first learning one language and then another. The process is contrasted with simultaneous bilingualism, in which both languages are learned at the same time.
- Bilingualism: Language and Cognition - Bilingualism: Language and Cognition is a peer-reviewed linguistics journal published by Cambridge University Press and devoted to the study of multilingualism. The journal is available electronically with subscription via the site of the publisher.
- Simultaneous bilingualism - Simultaneous bilingualism is when a child becomes bilingual by learning two languages at one time.