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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Getting to Know Bilingual Children | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Who Is Bilingual? Essential Definitions And Distinctions For Professionals | |
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| Double Meanings? The Child's Mother Tongue | |
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| Two Equal Languages? Balanced Bilinguals | |
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| Two Underdeveloped Languages? Double 'Semilingualism' | |
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| Creme de la Creme? Prestigious Bilinguals | |
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| Triple Tongues? Multilingual Children | |
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| The Advantages of the Bilingual Child | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Do Bilingual Children Have Advantages? The Modern View | |
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| Two Views of Bilinguals: Fractional or Holistic? | |
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| Bilingual Characters: The Personality and Social Development of Bilinguals | |
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| Insiders or Outsiders? Bilingualism and Immigration | |
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| Bilingual Belonging? Identity Issues and Solutions | |
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| The Everyday Use of Language by Bilingual Children | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Choice Language: The Language Use of Bilingual Children | |
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| Sensitive Listeners? Bilingualism and Sensitivity in Communication | |
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| To Rephrase--Children as Interpreters | |
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| Moving Between Languages--Codeswitching | |
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| In Other Words--The Functions and Results of Codeswitching | |
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| Bilingual Children and Families | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Types of Bilingual Families | |
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| The Development of Bilingualism in Children | |
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| Childhood Trilingualism | |
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| Bilingualism and Marriage | |
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| Bilingual Children in Communities | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Language Communities | |
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| Language Minorities | |
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| A Categorization of Language Minorities | |
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| Immigration, Emigration and Language | |
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| Ethnic Identity | |
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| Diglossia | |
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| Language Boundaries: The Territorial and Personality Principles | |
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| Dialects and Bilingualism | |
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| Bilingual Children and Thinking | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Bilingualism and Intelligence | |
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| Bilingualism and Creative Thinking | |
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| Bilingualism and Metalinguistic Awareness | |
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| Common Underlying Proficiency and Separate Underlying Proficiency | |
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| Thresholds Theory | |
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| The Education of Bilingual Children | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Home and School Relationships | |
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| Community Language Education | |
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| The Empowerment of Bilingual Children | |
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| The Nature and Aims of Bilingual Education | |
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| Different Styles of Bilingual Education | |
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| The Bilingual Classroom | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Language Allocation in Bilingual Classrooms | |
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| Recent Approaches to Bilingual Teaching and Learning | |
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| Developing Biliterate Children | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Literacy Among Bilingual Students | |
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| The Development of Biliteracy | |
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| Bilingual Children with Special Needs | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Explanations of Under-Achievement in Bilinguals | |
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| Bilingualism and Learning Difficulties | |
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| Language Delay and Language Disorder | |
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| Language and Speech Therapy in a Bilingual Context | |
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| The Assessment and Education of Bilingual Children with Special Needs | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Assessment of Bilingual Children | |
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| Bilingual Special Education | |
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| Multiculturalism, Racism and Bilingual Children | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Multicultural Education for All | |
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| Anti-Racism and Prejudice Reduction in School | |
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| Immigrants and Refugee Children | |
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| Curriculum Adaptation with Immigrants and Refugee Students | |
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| The Politics Surrounding Bilingual Children | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Language as a Problem, a Right and a Resource | |
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| The Assimilation of Language Minorities | |
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| Integration and Language Minorities | |
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| Cultural Pluralism | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |