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bi·lin·gual
/ bīˈlinggwəl/
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adj.
(of a person) speaking two languages fluently:
a bilingual secretary.
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(of a text or an activity) written or conducted in two languages:
bilingual dictionaries
bilingual education.
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(of a country, city, etc.) using two languages, esp. officially:
the town is virtually bilingual in Dutch and German.
DERIVATIVES:
bi·lin·gual·ism
/ -ˌlizəm/ n.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Bilingualism brouhaha in Canada.
Magazine article from: National Review; 4/16/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...fact that the spread of Ottawa's bilingualism policy since its introduction on the...French-speakers and AIDS. Comparing bilingualism opponents to cancer and wolfpacks is...praiseworthy vigilance. Canada's official bilingualism was supposed to prevent the inexorable...
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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...
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Bilingualism And American National Unity.(Brief article)(Book review)
Newspaper article from: Internet Bookwatch; 4/1/2008; 573 words
; Bilingualism And American National Unity Margot...Margot Kinberg and Peter Serdyukov, "Bilingualism And American National Unity: the Pros...Immersion Education" focuses upon bilingualism and multilingualism in a global age...
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Bilingualism/Bilingual Education
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health: Infancy through Adolescence
Bilingualism/Bilingual education Definition Bilingualism is the ability to communicate in two different languages...acquire both languages. Throughout much of the world, bilingualism is the norm for both children and adults. In the past...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Bilingualism
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
BILINGUALISM BILINGUALISM. See Education, Bilingual .
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