Bilingual and Multilingual Education in the 21st Century

Christian Abello-Contesse is Associate Professor at the Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, where he teaches courses in second language acquisition, foreign-language teaching methodology, bilingualism and multilingualism, bilingual education and intercultural communication.Paul M. Chandler is Professor of Spanish and Chair of the Department of Languages and Literatures of Europe and the Americas at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA. His areas of interest are teacher development, second language reading and second language acquisition.María Dolores López-Jiménez is Assistant Professor at Pablo de Olavide University in Seville, Spain. Her main research interests include vocabulary teaching and learning, materials design and evaluation, and second language acquisition.Rubén Chacón-Beltrán is Associate Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia in Madrid, Spain, where he teaches undergraduate courses in English as a foreign language and sociolinguistics, and graduate seminars in bilingualism and language policy.

The editors of this book have done a brilliant job: bringing together a team of international specialists in bilingual and multilingual education, ranging from primary to tertiary education, and having them focus on theoretical and practical issues. This book is a must-read for researchers, teachers and education officials!

• Christian Abello-Contesse, Paul M. Chandler, María Dolores López-Jiménez & Rubén Chacón-Beltrán: Introduction and OverviewPART I LESSONS FROM ACCUMULATED EXPERIENCE IN BILINGUAL AND MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION1. Christian Abello-Contesse: Bilingual and Multilingual Education: An Overview of the Field2. Fred Genesee: Insights into Bilingual Education from Research on Immersion Programs in Canada3. Anne-Marie de Mejía: Bilingual Education in Colombia: The Teaching and Learning of Languages and Academic Content Area Knowledge4. Carmen Pérez-Vidal: Perspectives and Lessons from the Challenge of CLIL ExperiencesPART II ISSUES IN LANGUAGE USE IN CLASSROOMS AT THE ELEMENTARY, SECONDARY, AND TERTIARY LEVELS5. Jasone Cenoz & Xabier Etxague: From Bilingualism to Multilingualism: Basque, Spanish, and English in Higher Education6. Gwyn Lewis, Bryn Jones & Colin Baker: 100 Bilingual Lessons: Distrubuting Two Languages in Classrooms7. Elena Domínguez Romero & Jorge Braga Riera: Native Language Influence in Teaching Subject Matter Content through English in Spanish Tertiary Education8. Ofelia García: From Diglossia to Transglossia: Bilingual and Multilingual Classrooms in the 21st CenturyPART III PARTICIPANT PERSPECTIVES ON BILINGUAL EDUCATION EXPERIENCES: STUDENTS, LANGUAGE ASSISTANTS, STUDENT-TEACHERS, AND TEACHER-EDUCATORS9. María D. Pérez Murillo: The Students’ Views on their Experience in a Spanish-English Bilingual Education Program in Spain10. Nicole A. Tobin & Christian Abello-Contesse: The Use of Native Assistants as Language and Cultural Resources in Andalusia’s Bilingual Schools11. Fernanda Liberali: Student-Teachers and Teacher-Educators Experience New Roles in Pre-Service Bilingual Teacher Education in Brazil12. Miguel García López & Anthony Bruton: Potential Drawbacks and Actual Benefits of CLIL Initiatives in Public Secondary SchoolsPART IV ON THE LANGUAGE NEEDS OF BILINGUAL AND MULTILINGUAL STUDENTS IN MONOLINGUAL SCHOOLS13. Maurice Carder: International School Students: Developing their Bilingual Potential14. Jaime E. Espinoza Moore & Emilia Alonso Marks: Heritage Spanish Speakers in School Settings: Are their Needs being Met?