Bilinguality and Bilingualism

by Michel Blanc, Josiane F. Hamers, Michel H. A. Blanc

Book Overview

The book explores how bilingualism develops in childhood or later; on bilingualism's social, neurological, and psychological foundations; and on bilingualism's social and cultural consequences. It also examines the wider issues of languages in contact, both psycholinguistic and socio-political, and the applications of bilingual research to language teaching, translation and interpreting, and language planning and policy-making. Hamers and Blanc's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521337976
• ISBN13: 9780521337977
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent textbook but needs to be updated

Have used this book in undergraduate teaching for many years because there is nothing recent to come near it in psychological coverage. But I wish someone had written a more up to date version or edition in an easier variety of English.