Current Issues in Bilingualism Cognitive and Socio-linguistic Perspectives /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Leikin, Mark (Editor), Schwartz, Mila (Editor), Tobin, Yishai (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Series: Literacy Studies, Perspectives from Cognitive Neurosciences, Linguistics, Psychology and Education ; 5
• Subjects: Education.; Psycholinguistics.; Sociolinguistics.; Education, general.

As populations become more mobile, so interest grows in bi- and multilingualism, particularly in the context of education. This volume focuses on the singular situation in Israel, whose complex multiculturalism has Hebrew and Arabic as official languages, English as an academic and political languag...