Home and community language teaching for bilingual learners: issues in planning and instruction

Language use and language shift among the Malays in Singapore

“…Dorian (1977Dorian ( , 1980 reported high maintenance rates of Gaelic in families with living grandparents. Numerous studies around the world have highlighted grandparents and older relatives as important factors in language maintenance (Tosi 1986;Luo and Wiseman 2000;Ishizawa 2004). In an investigation on the Chinese community in England, Li (1994) found that the Chinese dominant are the older speakers and the bilingual or English dominant are the younger speakers.…”

Neither a deficit nor an asset: Children's bilingualism in education

“…Normally foreign language pedagogy is more concerned with the opportunity of enforcing certain linguistic repertoires than it is capable of coping with the diversity of community language use; therefore it cannot meet the needs of learners even if it is advertised as one based on 'communicative language teaching'. Downloaded by [University College London] at 06:20 02 December 2014 Debates Covertly rather than overtly, bilingualism in multi-cultural education is stigmatised by an approach which ignores the cultural and identity values already developed by language use (however limited its competence may be) and assumes in the community language pupil the same neutrality as that of the foreign language learner (Tosi, 1986b).…”