Aspects of Bilingualism in Wales

Aspects of Bilingualism in Wales

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  • Author: Colin Baker
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 9780905028507
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 226

The minority language and culture of Wales is under threat. Building on a computer analysis of the 1981 Welsh language Census data, the book provides evidence of a language moving slowly towards extinction. Each chapter examines an issue which is of significance in most minority language situations, but is exemplified in the Welsh context.


Key Issues in Bilingualism and Bilingual Education

Key Issues in Bilingualism and Bilingual Education

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  • Author: Colin Baker
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 9780905028941
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 236

The book looks at world-wide evidence on issues surrounding bilingualism and bilingual education. These issues include the relationship between bilingualism and intelligence, the advantages and disadvantages of bilingual education and the role of attitude and motivation in bilingualism.


Creating a bilingual Wales

Creating a bilingual Wales

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  • Author: Institute of Welsh Affairs
  • Publisher: Institute of Welsh Affairs
  • ISBN: 1904773400
  • Category : Bilingualism
  • Languages : cy
  • Pages : 69

An authoritative collection of papers on the challenges involved in extending and consolidating Welsh medium education, with a view to realising the Welsh Assembly Government's stated goal of creating a bilingual Wales.


Policy and Practice in Bilingual Education

Policy and Practice in Bilingual Education

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  • Author: Ofelia García
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 9781853592669
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 308

A collection of pivotal papers from 1986-1993 on bilingualism and bilingual education, grouped in sections on policy and legislation, implementation of bilingual policy in schools, bilingualism in instruction, and using the bilingualism of the school community. Articles conclude with suggested student activities and discussion questions, encouraging students to take on an advocacy-oriented role. The reader can be used alone or with the publisher's Foundations of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Sociolinguistics in Wales

Sociolinguistics in Wales

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  • Author: Mercedes Durham
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 1137528974
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 313

This volume showcases recent sociolinguistic research about Wales and offers contributions from scholars working on Welsh, English and other languages spoken in the country. The chapters present a range of frameworks and methodologies used in sociolinguistics and apply them to the Welsh linguistic context. This context is very distinctive compared to the rest of the UK and represents a prime ground to observe different aspects of the interplay between language and society. The structure of the volume reflects the linguistic diversity of the country and is divided into three sections. The first section examines recent research on Welsh, the second section focuses on English, and the third section deals with research on Welsh and English together, as well as research on other languages spoken in Wales. The book will be useful to those wanting to discover more about language and society in Wales, as well as to those already working in the field as it offers new perspectives and insights.


Bilingual Education in Welsh Primary Schools. Advantageous or Unfavourable?

Bilingual Education in Welsh Primary Schools. Advantageous or Unfavourable?

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  • Author: Patrycia Gellert
  • Publisher: GRIN Verlag
  • ISBN: 3668736987
  • Category : Foreign Language Study
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 20

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Discussion and Essays, grade: 1,7, University of Wuppertal, language: English, abstract: This term paper concerns the advantages as well as disadvantages of bilingual education in Wales based on personal experiences I made in a primary school in South West Wales. I chose this topic because I had the great opportunity to have a direct insight into the Welsh primary school system over a certain period of time and therefore can draw on my own personal perceptions. The relevance of this subject-matter is of great importance since Wales can be considered an international character in educating through a minority language. It demonstrates that in one society two languages can co-exist, which contributes to a stronger community-spirit and pride but at the same time exhibits different opinions concerning the effectiveness of early bilingual education. In the following I will provide a definition for bilingualism and explain the meaning of bilingual education as well as its different types, referring to Baker. Furthermore I will introduce the theoretical framework this term paper is based on, making reference to Jim Cummins’ ‘Balance Theory’, ‘Interdependence Hypothesis’ or ‘Dual Iceberg Theory’ and the ‘Thresholds Theory’. The first two mentioned theories can be classified into the idea of ‘Separate Underlying Proficiency’ and ‘Common Underlying Proficiency’, which will be elucidated later on. Subsequently I will move on to the emergence of bilingual education in Wales, illustrating the justification of bilingual education at an early stage of life, the infant and primary school period. Ensuing I will outline my personal experiences made with primary school children in a Welsh village called Letterston, located in Pembrokeshire, from age five to eleven, stating my own observations concerning the educational situation. Ultimately I will present a conclusion relating to the advantageous or unfavourable function of bilingual education performed in Welsh primary schools based on my own experience and theoretical background.


Welsh English

Welsh English

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  • Author: Heli Paulasto
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • ISBN: 1614512728
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 287

This book is the first comprehensive, research-based description of the development, structure, and use of Welsh English, a contact-induced variety of English spoken in the British Isles. Present-day accents and dialects of Welsh English are the combined outcome of historical language shift from Welsh to English, continued bilingualism, intense contacts between Wales and England, and multicultural immigration. As a result, Welsh English is a distinctive, regionally and sociolinguistically diverse variety, whose status is not easily categorized. In addition to existing research, the present volume utilizes a wide range of spoken corpus data gathered from across Wales in order to describe the phonology, lexis, and grammar of the variety. It includes discussion of sociolinguistic and cultural contexts, and of ongoing change in Welsh English. The place that Welsh English occupies in relation to other Englishes in the Inner and Outer Circles is also analysed. The book is accessible to the non-specialist, but of particular use to scholars, teachers, and students interested in English in Wales, Britain, and the world. It provides an unparelleled resource on this long-standing and vibrant variety.


Advances in the Study of Bilingualism

Advances in the Study of Bilingualism

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  • Author: Enlli Môn Thomas
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1783091703
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 281

This book provides a contemporary approach to the study of bilingualism. Drawing on contributions from leading experts in the field, this book brings together - in a single volume - a selection of the exciting work conducted as part of the programme of the ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism in Theory and Practice at Bangor University, Wales. Each chapter has as its main focus an exploration of the relationship between the two languages of a bilingual. Section by section, the authors draw on current findings and methodologies to explore the ways in which their research can address this question from a number of different perspectives.


The Bilingual Problem

The Bilingual Problem

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  • Author: David John Saer
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Bilingualism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 126


Trosglwyddo Iaith Mewn Teuluoedd Dwyieithog Yng Nghymru

Trosglwyddo Iaith Mewn Teuluoedd Dwyieithog Yng Nghymru

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  • Author: Welsh Language Board
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780953533442
  • Category : Bilingualism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 348