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bilingualism
bilingualism ability to use two languages. Fluency in a second language requires skills in listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing, although in practice some of those skills are often considerably less developed than others. Few bilinguals are equally proficient in both languages. H... Read more
University of Ottawa
University of Ottawa at Ottawa, Ont., Canada; bilingual; provincially supported; founded 1848 as the College of Bytown. It became the Univ. of Ottawa in 1866. It has faculties of arts, administration, education, civil and common law, psychology, science, engineering, social sciences, medicine, nurs... Read more
United States Department of Education
United States Department of Education executive department of the federal government responsible for advising on educational plans and policies, providing assistance for education, and carrying out educational research. It was established (1867) as an independent government agency and then transfer... Read more
Brian Mulroney
Brian Mulroney (Martin Brian Mulroney) , 1939-, Canadian prime minister (1984-93). Raised in Quebec in a working class family, Mulroney was a successful bilingual lawyer who became active in provincial politics in the 1970s. In 1983 he was elected both national leader of the Progressive Conservat... Read more
Patrick Henry Pearse
Patrick Henry Pearse , 1879-1916, Irish educator and patriot. He was educated for the law but early in his career made himself part of the Gaelic movement in Ireland. Pearse was active in the work of the Gaelic League and edited its journal, An Claidheamh Soluis. He founded the influential bilingu... Read more
Georges Perrot
Georges Perrot , 1832-1914, French archaeologist. He was professor at the Sorbonne from 1875, director of the École normale supérieure, Paris, from 1888 to 1902, and permanent secretary of the Academy of Inscriptions. While a member of an archaeological expedition (1861) to Asia Minor,... Read more
Uriel Weinreich
Uriel Weinreich 1926-67, Polish-American linguist, b. Vilnius, Poland (now in Lithuania), Ph.D. Columbia Univ., 1951. Weinreich taught linguistics at Columbia (1951-67) and is noted for his contributions to Yiddish studies, sociolinguistics , dialectology, and for the increased acceptance of seman... Read more
Acadia
Acadia , Fr. Acadie, region and former French colony, E Canada, encompassing modern Nova Scotia but also New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and coastal areas of E Maine. After an abortive 1604 settlement of St. Croix (Dochet) Island, in the Saint Croix River, the chief town, Port Royal (now ... Read more
Basque language
Basque language tongue of uncertain relationship spoken by close to a million people, most of whom live in NE Spain and some of whom reside in SW France. The language has eight dialects. Speakers of Basque are for the most part bilingual, and there are many Basques who do not speak the language. Ba... Read more
Cornwall
Cornwall county (1991 pop. 469,300), SW England. The county seat is Bodmin , although most administration eminates from Truro. Cornwall is a peninsula bounded seaward by the English Channel and the Atlantic Ocean and landward by Devon. It terminates in the west with the rugged promontory of Land'... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "bilingualism"

Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, and English as a Second Language
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education BILINGUALISM, SECOND LANGUAGE LEARNING, AND ENGLISH AS A SECOND...traditions of exogamy, and modernization, some degree of bilingualism is typical of most people in the world. Bilingualism is a feature not just of individuals, but also of...
BILINGUALISM
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language BILINGUALISM. The capacity to make alternate...and use of one language the norm. Bilingualism, however, is at least as common as...people) is bilingual and kinds of bilingualism are probably present in every country...
bilingualism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition bilingualism ability to use two languages. Fluency in a second language requires skills in listening...Saunders, Bilingual Children (1988); K. Hyltenstam and L. K. Obler, ed., Bilingualism Across the Lifespan (1989).
Bilingualism/Bilingual Education
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology Bilingualism/Bilingual education Use of a language other than English in public...throughout the country do not speak English at all. Organized opposition to bilingualism, which collectively became known as the English-Only movement, began...
Bilingual Education
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education ...close to four million. Benefits of Bilingualism and Theoretical Foundations of Bilingual...order for the beneficial aspects of bilingualism to accrue. Cummins also introduced...underlying proficiency TABLE 1 model of bilingualism, which explains how concepts learned...
bilingual education
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...mostly eliminated bilingual education programs there. Bilingualism proponents note the importance of ethnic heritage and the...Bibliography: See K. Hakuta, Mirror of Language: The Debate on Bilingualism (1986); J. Cummins and D. Corson, Bilingual Education...
Liberal party
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...rebuilt its electoral base, although for much of his tenure as prime minister in the 1960s he headed a minority government. Bilingualism, constitutional questions, and the status of Quebec dominated the tenure of Liberal Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau , who...
Chechen-Ingush
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures ...distinct languages and are not mutually intelligible, in areas of population overlap communication is achieved through passive bilingualism. Learning to communicate smoothly in an unfamiliar dialect area may require several days' time. There are Chechen communities...
Lithuanian Literature and Language
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...daily conversation (even if with a regional accent) for magnates, gentry, and burghers, and there was likely a growing bilingualism among all but rural speakers of the other represented languages. These included above all Lithuanian and Ruthenian (ruskii...
Language Minority Students
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education ...a language other than English also reported that they could speak English very well or well, reflecting a high degree of bilingualism (see Table 2). This proportion varied slightly by language groups, with almost 72 percent of Spanish speakers, 86...

Dictionary entries related to "bilingualism"

Bilingualism and Multilingualism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas BILINGUALISM AND MULTILINGUALISM. A bilingual individual...abilities may be an additional dimension to bilingualism, but they are often referred to separately as biliteracy, leaving bilingualism to carry the weight of oral language abilities...
Bilingualism
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History BILINGUALISM BILINGUALISM. See Education, Bilingual .
language
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...There is fierce debate among linguists as to whether this bilingualism affects the child intellectually—although the...political than scholarly. The political considerations of bilingualism is just one aspect of the relationship between language and...
North African Countries
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...published during the 1980s and later deal with a variety of questions, such as circumcision (Mohammed Fouad Benchekroun), bilingualism (Jalil Bennani), the role of the father (Dachmi), and cultural resistance (Ghita El Khayat). In Algeria, Loufti...
Education, Bilingual
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Children. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1998. Baker, Colin, and Sylvia Prys Jones. Encyclopedia of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education. Clevedon, U.K.: Multilingual Matters, 1998. Brisk, Maria Estela. Bilingual Education...
sociolinguistics
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English ...relation to social factors, including differences of regional, class, and occupational dialect, gender differences, and bilingualism. DERIVATIVES: so·ci·o·lin·guist / -ˈli ng gwist / n. so·ci...
Multiculturalism
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...MULTICULTURALISM. American multiculturalism long predated the widespread use of the term. A 1965 report by the Canadian Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism used "multiculturalism" to represent that nation's diverse peoples, and after 1971 Canada used the...

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Assessing the Advantages of Bilingualism for the Children of Immigrants1
Magazine article from: The International Migration Review; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...academic debate on the advantages of bilingualism to the children of immigrants in the...Longitudinal Study to estimate the effects of bilingualism on educational outcomes. In contrast...evidence that there are advantages to bilingualism beyond the functional ability to communicate...
Bilinguality and Bilingualism.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 10/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; Bilinguality and Bilingualism. By JOSINE F. HAMERS AND MICHAEL...overview of the main issues of bilingualism. It is designed as a source of...dimensions of bilinguality and bilingualism: the former term is reserved for...
What's wrong with the concept of cognitive development in studies of bilingualism?(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: Bilingual Review; 9/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...cognitive development in the studies of bilingualism? The belief widely held up to the 1960s that bilingualism had only negative effects on children...challenged. It is now believed that bilingualism has a positive effect on children...
Bilingualism, cultural transmutation, and fields of coexistence: California's Spanish language legacy.(Report)
Magazine article from: Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...in California and their impact on bilingualism as a natural acquisition process. Factors that propagate bilingualism such as a continual flow of Spanish...persistence of Spanish/English bilingualism and cultural nuances of language...
Born-Again Bilingualism [Sorry, I Don't Speak French: Confronting the Canadian Crisis That Won't Go Away]
Magazine article from: Literary Review of Canada; 6/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; Born-Again Bilingualism An anglo journalist charts the ups...it, after 40 years of official bilingualism. Three hundred thousand kids are...terms with its French fact. Because bilingualism has not moved much beyond the political...
Bilingualism as a future investment: The case of Japanese high school students at an international school in Japan
Magazine article from: Bilingual Research Journal; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...study explores the outcomes of early bilingualism for speakers of the society's majority...develop the highest level of balanced bilingualism found in the school. As a whole...who deliberately choose to promote bilingualism in their children, international schools...
Bilingualism in Development: Language, Literacy, and Cognition
Magazine article from: Bilingual Research Journal; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...University Bialystok, Ellen (2001). Bilingualism in Development: Language, Literacy...Cambridge University Press. The topic of bilingualism has aroused considerable interest in...perspectives in order to understand how bilingualism affects cognitive abilities like memory...
Balkanization, bilingualism, and comparisons of language situations at home and abroad
Magazine article from: Bilingual Research Journal; 4/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...English-Only legislation and against bilingualism. The argument here is that the United...countries and avoid the promotion of bilingualism has been made by a number ofpeople...pp. 88-89)1 BALKANIZATION AND BILINGUALISM In the above quotation, Linda Chavez...
If it walks like un canard: Ottawa residents say creeping bilingualism is being substituted for the official kind.
Magazine article from: The Report Newsmagazine; 11/20/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...advantage to advocates of official bilingualism. As the city gets bigger and the number...government is becoming a tacit supporter of bilingualism, primarily because it rejected the...Potter says his opposition to official bilingualism is based on practical concerns. The...
PROMOTING FRENCH-ENGLISH INDIVIDUAL BILINGUALISM THROUGH EDUCATION IN CAMEROON
Magazine article from: Journal of Third World Studies; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...promote French-English official bilingualism in all domains of public life...made by the state to promote bilingualism in education and lastly proposes...redefinition of the policy of official bilingualism. LANGUAGE IN EDUCATION IN CAMEROON...