The Cambridge Handbook of Bilingualism

A truly comprehensive survey of bilingualism, examining the learning, use, and unlearning of two or more languages across the lifespan.

Annick De Houwer (Edited by), Lourdes Ortega (Edited by)

9781107179219, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 15 November 2018

678 pages, 3 b/w illus.
25.5 x 18 x 3.3 cm, 1.52 kg

'The editors of this Handbook have done a tremendous job in offering readers an exceptionally broad spectrum of views on phenomena of individual bilingualism across the life span: A wealth of well-structured information and new insights, timely and truly refreshing, even for established researchers.' Jan Hulstijn, Universiteit van Amsterdam

The ability to speak two or more languages is a common human experience, whether for children born into bilingual families, young people enrolled in foreign language classes, or mature and older adults learning and using more than one language to meet life's needs and desires. This Handbook offers a developmentally oriented and socially contextualized survey of research into individual bilingualism, comprising the learning, use and, as the case may be, unlearning of two or more spoken and signed languages and language varieties. A wide range of topics is covered, from ideologies, policy, the law, and economics, to exposure and input, language education, measurement of bilingual abilities, attrition and forgetting, and giftedness in bilinguals. Also explored are cross- and intra-disciplinary connections with psychology, clinical linguistics, second language acquisition, education, cognitive science, neurolinguistics, contact linguistics, and sign language research.

Introduction. Learning, using and unlearning more than one language Annick De Houwer and Lourdes Ortega
Part I. Bilingual Learning and Use at Five Stages of Life: 1. Becoming bilingual in early childhood Ludovica Serratrice
2. Bilingualism from childhood through adolescence Martha Bigelow and Penelope Collins
3. Young bilingual adults Kellie Goncalves
4. Bilingualism in midlife David Singleton and Simone E. Pfenninger
5. Language and older bilinguals Mira Goral
Part II. The Larger Contexts of Bilingualism: 6. Ideologies of language, bilingualism, and monolingualism Janet M. Fuller
7. Bilingualism and the law Philipp S. Angermeyer
8. Language planning and policies for bilingualism Joseph Lo Bianco
9. The economics of bilingualism Francois Grin
Part III. Contexts for Bilingual Learning and Unlearning: 10. The nature of exposure and input in early bilingualism Sharon Armon-Lotem and Natalia Meir
11. Becoming bilingual through additive immersive programs Maria Juan-Garau and Roy Lyster
12. Foreign language learning from early childhood to young adulthood Carmen Munoz and Nina Spada
13. Supporting bilingualism in adult first generation migrants James Simpson
14. Unlearning and relearning of languages from childhood to later adulthood Merel Keijzer and Kees De Bot
Part IV. The Dynamics of Bilingualism across the Lifespan: 15. The measurement of bilingual abilities Jeanine Treffers-Daller
16. Highly proficient and gifted bilinguals Adriana Biedron and David Birdsong
17. Language choice in bilingual interaction Annick De Houwer
18. First language attrition: from bilingual to monolingual proficiency? Barbara Kopke
Part V. Bilingualism Research across Disciplines: 19. Bilingualism in clinical linguistics Carol Scheffner Hammer and Lisa A. Edmonds
20. Doing and undoing bilingualism in education Ofelia Garcia and Ruanni Tupas
21. Second language acquisition as a road to bilingualism Lourdes Ortega
22. Bilingualism in cognitive science: the characteristics and consequences of bilingual language control Kenneth R. Paap
23. Bilingualism in neurolinguistics: from static to dynamic approaches Arturo E. Hernandez
Part VI. Bilingual Connections: 24. Bilingualism and sign language research Gladys Tang and Felix Sze
25. Bilingualism and bidialectalism Jean-Pierre Chevrot and Anna Ghimenton
26. Bilingualism and language contact Suzanne Aalberse and Pieter Muysken
27. Bilingualism and multilingualism Suzanne Quay and Simona Montanari.

Subject Areas: Sign languages, Braille & other linguistic communication [CFZ], Bilingualism & multilingualism [CFDM], Language acquisition [CFDC], Psycholinguistics [CFD], Sociolinguistics [CFB]