230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
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Attitudes to bilingualism have always been contradictory. The possession of more than one language has been thought to be an advantage, even a necessity, while simultaneously being regarded as an inconvenience, sometimes a disastrous one. Yet more than half the world’s population is bilingual. Britain is also now a multilingual society. It is therefore important to understand the phenomenon of... Read more
Introduction 1. The dimensions of bilingualism in London schools 2. ‘So I think I’ll stay halfway’ 3. ‘Urdu has very deep manners’ 4. ‘It’s a positioning of the self within the language’ 5. The social perspectives of bilingualism 6. Learning first and second languages 7. Do bilinguals think better? 8. The educational implications of bilingualism 9. Writing in a second language
Biography
Jane Miller is Professor Emerita of the UCL Institute of Education. She taught in the English and Media Department there from 1976 to 1998 and edited Changing English from 1993 to 2013. She has written books about bilingualism, women teachers, and literature.
