Sources: Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education

Exploiting a Multilingual Web-based Encyclopedia for Bilingual Terminology Extraction

Multilingual linguistic resources are usually constructed from parallel corpora, but since these corpora are available only for selected text domains and language pairs, the potential of other resources is being explored as well. This article seeks to explore and to exploit the idea of using multilingual web-based encyclopedias such as Wikipedia as comparable corpora for bilingual terminology e...

Bilingual Education for China’s Ethnic Minorities

Bilingual education searching for promising didactic proposals

In the Basque context, the English-French bilingual education systems from Canada and Quebec are considered an indispensable reference for the Basque-Spanish and Basque-French bilingual schools, which, for the approximately last 40 years, constitute a keystone for the revitalization process of the Basque language (Zalbide, 1998). One of the crucial contributions of English-French bilingual educ...

Critical Research Issues in Bilingual Secondary Education

Researchers continue to be interested in those subjects generally regarded as fundamental to bilingual education: second language acquisition, biliteracy, curriculum development, dual language pedagogy, the relation of first and second language development, assessment of language development in bilinguals, and others. Studies in these areas should and no doubt will continue. My task in this pre...

A Review of the Literature on Bilingual Education