The issue of how language proficiency relates to academic achievement is clearly relevant
to the educational development of bilingual and trilingual children. These children may be …

Broad Categories of Language Distribution and Their Rationales It is obvious that two
languages must be used as media of instruction if a bilingual focus is to be maintained in an …

Within the last several years, researchers working with linguistic minority children have
focused increasingly on the development of the types of language proficiencies that are …

Consideration of literacy practices that ensure success for young second‐language learners
has become crucial for educators, given the growing linguistic diversity in an ever …

In 1982, Hugo Baetens Beardsmore published the book Bilingualism: Basic Principles.
According to the cover description, this book was designed 'to provide a clear introductory …

Empirical research on the consequences of bilingual education for minority language
children is reviewed, and a theoretical model is constructed in order to account for the …

A “myth” is not the antonym of a fact; rather, it is a piece of information that is based, as the
definition suggests, on a claim which is at least partially true. Turning to “the younger, the …

Third language acquisition is a very common phenomenon all over the world, in natural as
well as formal contexts. It takes place in a large number of diverse sociolinguistic situations …

It is by now a truism that a bilingual is not two monolinguals in one head. Regardless of the
model of language storage, use and acquisition one espouses, there is incontrovertible …

This article addresses the question of what language proficiency (LP) is, both theoretically
and empirically. It does so by making a distinction, on one hand, between basic and higher …