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Biografisk notat
Suzanne Romaine is Merton Professor of English Language at the University of Oxford.Throughout the book, bilingualism is seen as both a societal and cognitive phenomenon. Professor Romaine explores various aspects of bilingual behavior, such as code switching and language mixing, in terms of neurolinguistic organization in the individual speaker. The author also assesses the positive and negative claims made for the effects of bilingualism on children's cognitive, social and academic development, and examines the assumptions behind various language policies and programs for bilingual children. In all this, Professor Romaine draws on her own research with Punjabi /Engllish bilinguals in Britain, and Tok Pisin/ English bilingual children in Papua New Guinea.
List of Tables.
Editor's Preface.
Preface to Second Edition.
Acknowledgments.
1. Introduction to Study of Bilingualism.
2. The Bilingual Speech Community.
3. The Bilingual Brain and the Blingual Individual.
4. Code-switching and Communicative Competence.
5. The Bilingual Child.
6. Bilingualism and Education.
7. Attitudes towards Bilingualism.
8. Conclusion.
Notes.
References.
Index.
Throughout the book, bilingualism is seen as both a societal and cognitive phenomenon. Professor Romaine explores various aspects of bilingual behavior, such as code switching and language mixing, in terms of neurolinguistic organization in the individual speaker. The author also assesses the positive and negative claims made for the effects of bilingualism on children's cognitive, social and academic development, and examines the assumptions behind various language policies and programs for bilingual children. In all this, Professor Romaine draws on her own research with Punjabi /Engllish bilinguals in Britain, and Tok Pisin/ English bilingual children in Papua New Guinea.