Professional Development resources on Dover: Bilingualism and language

Carder presents a model for successfully instructing bilingual students in international schools across the curriculum. The author presents a three-programme model which will provide content-based English-language skills, provide appopriate staff training, and develop students' mother tongues.

The rise of globalization makes language competencies more valuable, both at individual and societal levels. This book examines the links between globalization and the way we teach and learn languages. It begins by exploring why some individuals are more successful than others at learning nonnative languages and why some education systemsand countries are more successful than others at teaching languages. The book comprises chapters by different authors who are experts in the subject of language learning. There are chapters on the role of motivation; the way that languages, cultures, and identities are interconnected; and the insights provided by neuroscience.Also discussed are migrants and their education and opportunities to learn languages, as well as language learning, teaching, and new approaches in Asia, North and South America, Africa, and Europe.

This book describes a particular type of educational provision referred to as 'elite' or 'prestigious' bilingual education, which caters mainly for upwardly mobile, highly educated, higher socio-economic status learners of two or more internationally useful languages. The development of different types of elite bilingual or multilingual educational provision is discussed and an argument is made for the need to study bilingual education in majority as well as in minority contexts.

This collection presents new investigations into the role of heritage languages and the correlation between culture and language from a pedagogic and cosmopolitical point of view. Produced with University of Cambridge International Examinations, this is a practical guide to support school principals in the implementation of bilingual education, and to help schools with an existing bilingual programme to evaluate and improve their practice. This is the first guide to focus on the development and organisation of a bilingual education programme from the perspective of the school principal. The book suggests how the major stakeholders - principal, teachers, students and parents - can work together effectively as a cohesive team. Drawing on best practice and research, it includes perspectives from school managers and teachers around the world.

If you would like your children to experience the benefits of becoming bilingual, but you aren’t sure how to teach them a second language, then Raising a Bilingual Child is the perfect step-by-step guide for you. Raising a Bilingual Child provides parents with information, encouragement, and practical advice for creating a positive bilingual environment. It offers both an overview of why parents should raise their children to speak more than one language and detailed steps parents can take to integrate two languages into their child’s daily routine. Raising a Bilingual Child also includes inspirational first-hand accounts from parents. It dispels the myth that bilingualism may hinder a child’s academic performance and explains that learning languages at a young age can actually enhance a child’s overall intellectual development.

This book addresses issues that educators, policy makers and parents of linguistically diverse children must face when teaching in, administrating or choosing an International School. The author draws on teaching theory to propose guidelines, best practice and checklists for ensuring that all children in a school¿s multicultural society benefit from a truly inclusive curriculum, regardless of their linguistic and cultural origins.

If languages influence the way we think, do bilinguals think differently in their respective languages? And if languages do not affect thought, why do bilinguals often perceive such influence? For many years these questions remained unanswered because the research on language and thought had focused solely on the monolingual mind. Bilinguals were either excluded from this research as 'unusual' or 'messy' subjects, or treated as representative speakers of their first languages. Only recently did bi- and multilinguals become research participants in their own right. Pavlenko considers the socio-political circumstances that led to the monolingual status quo and shows how the invisibility of bilingual participants compromised the validity and reliability of findings in the study of language and cognition. She then shifts attention to the bilingual turn in the field and examines its contributions to the understanding of the human mind.

Over the last forty years, the estimated number of international schools worldwide has increased from fewer than 300 to 6400 in 2012. This explosion is a response to the needs of a world in which borders are being traversed with ever greater ease and children increasingly need to be prepared for the global opportunities that await them. In this book, international school specialists reflect on where the movement has come from, how it stands and where developments are heading, offering insightful observations on these unique institutions. This is a comprehensive resource for students, researchers and professionals with an interest in the future of education in a globalized world.