Bilingualism and multilingualism Books

Book SynopsisA collaborative series with the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education highlighting leading-edge research across Teacher Education, International Education Reform and Language Education.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Series editors' preface; Introduction Peter Pericles; 1. Mainstreaming plurilingualism - restructuring heritage language provision in schools Jim Cummings; 2. Teaching heritage language learners - a study of programme profiles, practices and needs Maria Carreira; 3. Rethinking heritage languages - ideologies, identities, practices and priorities in Canada and China Patricia A. Duff and Duanduan Li; 4. The place of heritage languages in language education in Australia - a conceptual challenge Angela Scarino; 5. Courses in the language and culture of origin and their impact on youth development in cultural transition - a study amongst immigrant and dual-heritage youth in Switzerland Elena Makarova; 6. Language policies in the context of Australian civic pluralism Eugenia Arvanitis, Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope; 7. Communities taking the lead - mapping heritage language education assets Themistoklis Aravossitas; 8. Overcoming challenges of language choice in heritage language development amongst multilingual immigrant families James C. Kigamwa; 9. The impact of the CEFR on Canada's linguistic plurality - a space for heritage languages? Enrica Piccardo; 10. Strengthening our teacher community - consolidating a 'signature pedagogy' for the teaching of Spanish as heritage language María Luisa Parra; 11. Canada's 'other' language - the role of non-official languages in ethnic persistence Jack Jedwab; 12. Rethinking heritage language in a critical pedagogy framework Panayota Gounari.

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Book SynopsisPublic Service Interpreting isa field of central interest to those involved in ensuring access to public services. This bookprovides an overview of current issues through a multi-faceted approach, situating the work of public service interpreters in the broader context of public service practice.Trade Review'This book represents a valuable addition to the growing literature available to the student of interpreting. It also constitutes a useful encapsulation of the salient issues for the profession, and practitioners will benefit from its comprehensive nature and practical suggestions.' InterpretingTable of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface Acknowledgements What is All this About? Developing Interpreting in the Public Services: A Case Study The Expertise and Role of Public Service Interpreters and Translators Training and Assessment of Public Service Interpreters Establishing a Professional Framework Bilingual Practitioners The Role of Public Service Professionals: Training and Responsibilities Management and Policy References Index

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This study embarks on the intriguing quest for the origins of the Caribbean creole language Papiamentu. In the literature on the issue, widely diverging hypotheses have been advanced, but scholars have not come close to a consensus. The present study casts new and long-lasting light on the issue, putting forward compelling interdisciplinary evidence that Papiamentu is genetically related to the Portuguese-based creoles of the Cape Verde Islands, Guinea-Bissau, and Casamance (Senegal). Following the trans-Atlantic transfer of native speakers to Curaçao in the latter half of the 17th century, the Portuguese-based proto-variety underwent a far-reaching process of relexification towards Spanish, affecting the basic vocabulary while leaving intact the original phonology, morphology, and syntax. Papiamentu is thus shown to constitute a case of 'language contact reduplicated' in that a creole underwent a second significant restructuring process (relexification). These explicit claims and their rigorous underpinning will set standards for both the study of Papiamentu and creole studies at large and will be received with great interest in the wider field of contact linguistics.

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