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 New York. It reveals how these groups' efforts go beyond what has been called 'heritage language education' to focus on the construction of bilingual American diasporic communities.

• 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"