ELT5015 Bilingualism

  • USA, Ohio - first bilingual education law

  • Bloomfield

    definition: native-like control of both languages
  • German - East German

    In the 1950s, the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) introduced measures to address the linguistic diversity in the region, particularly regarding the Sorbian language.
  • Haugen

    definition: producing complete and meaningful sentences in more than one language
  • Diebold - bilingual learner

    A speaker has one highly developed language, and one in the early stages of development (incident bilingual)
  • Diebold

    definition: the use of at least two languages either by an individual or a group of speakers
  • Lambert et al

    Lambert and his colleagues at McGill University developed Canadian Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency for the needs of bilingual students - first immersion school started
  • Macnamara - bilingual learner

    Anyone who possesses minimal competence in only one of the four skills other than their mother tongue is bilingual.
  • Welsh

    Language Act of 1967
  • Haugen

    definition: simply as when a speaker can produce the language
  • Mackey

    definition: "the alternative use of two or more languages by the same individual"
  • Mackey - bilingual learner

    An individual who uses two or more languages alternatively.
  • Halliday - bilingual learner

    Someone with a communicative competence in more than one languages
  • Weinreich

    definition: the alternative usage of two languages
  • USA

    Bilingual Education Act - children developing English should have a different educational program never required bilingual education
  • Lambert

    proposed two types of school bilingualism: subtractive and additive
  • Grosjean - bilinguals

    Bilinguals are not two monolinguals in one person
  • Beardsmore

    definitions:
    - "the presence of at least two languages
    - within one and the same speaker, remembering that ability in these languages may or may not be equal
  • Beardsmore - bilingual learner

    Those being able to use two or more languages, not necessarily at the equal level of competence
  • Canada

    Constitution Act, 1982 guarantees legal equality of English and French
  • Maori - New Zeland

    Maori Language Act of 1987
  • Grosjean - bilingual learner

    the regular use of two (or more) languages
  • Grosjean - bilingual learner

    people who use two or more languages in their daily lives
  • Cen Williams

    translanguaging
  • Spain - Bilingual Education Programme

    by the Ministry of Education
  • The Republic of Ireland

    the Education Act of 1998 acknowledges two official languages: Irish (Gaeilge) and English.
  • Roeper

    Bilingualism: the representaion of mini-grammars; hence, Universal Bilingualism
  • Fitzgerald

    A person who is equally proficient in both languages and cognitive gains
  • USA

    No Children Left Behind
  • Shohamy

    uses the term "languaging"
  • Garcia

    heteroglossic model of bilingualism - the recursive dynamic model and dynamic model
  • China

    China formally introduced a policy of “bilingual education” in for schools in all minority areas in China
  • Garcia and Kleifgen

    dynamic bi / plurilingual education