Key Issues in Bilingualism and Bilingual Education

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Part 1 Bilingualism and intelligence. Part 2 Bilingualism and cognitive functioning: divergent and creative thinking bilingualism and divergent thinking bilingualism and an analytic orientation to language Piaget and bilingualism communicative sensitivity the cognitive style of field dependence - independence and bilingualism. Part 3 Bilingual education in Britain and Ireland: types of bilingual education bilingual education in Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales conclusions on Celtic and English bilingual education. Part 4 Bilingual education - the judgement of North American research USA Canada. Part 5 Attitudes and bilingualism: attitude theory, measurement attitude to Welsh - decline with age attitude to Gaelic and Irish - public support and personal scepticism attitude change. Part 6 Bilingualism and motivation: the measurement of motivation overview of bilingualism and motivation integrative and instrumental motivation research in Wales on bilingualism and motivation. Part 7 Theory into practice: the balance theory think tank model the thresholds theory the evolution of a theory concerning the language proficiency of bilinguals. two attitude/motivation models C.B.Paulston's bilingual education theories Spolsky's bilingual education evaluation model the input-output-context-process bilingual education model Cummins' theoretical framework for minority student intervention and empowerment.