Bilingual Community Education and Multilingualism: Beyond Heritage Languages in a Global City

by Ofelia García and Zeena Zakharia

Book Overview

This book explores bilingual community education, specifically the educational spaces shaped and organized by American ethnolinguistic communities for their children in the multilingual city of New York. Employing a rich variety of case studies which highlight the importance of the ethnolinguistic community in bilingual education, this collection examines the various structures that these communities use to educate their children as bilingual Americans...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847697992
• ISBN13: 9781847697998
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.2"