Current Issues in Bilingualism

As populations become more mobile, so interest grows in bi- and multilingualism, particularly in the context of education. This volume focuses on the singular situation in Israel, whose complex multiculturalism has Hebrew and Arabic as official languages, English as an academic and political language, and tongues such as Russian and Amharic spoken by immigrants.

Introduction .- Part I. Language and Literacy in Multilingual Society. Chapter 1. Relevance of the Linguistic Coding Difference Hypothesis to English as an  Additional Language of Literacy in Israel . Chapter 2.  Literacy Reflexes of Arabic Diglossia . Chapter 3. Multilingualism Among Israeli Arabs, and the Neuropsychology of Reading in Different Languages .- Part II. Academic Achievement of Children Coming from Immigrant Families. Chapter 4. Cognitive, Language, and Literacy Development in Socio-Culturally Vulnerable School Children . Chapter 5. Second Generation Immigrants . Chapter 6. Understanding Language Achievement of Immigrants in Schools .- Part III. Multilingual Acquisition and Processing. Chapter 7. Adjective Inflection in Hebrew . Chapter 8. Verb Inflections Indicators of Bilingual SLI . Chapter 9. Procedural and Declarative Memory in the Acquisition of Morphological Knowledge  . Chapter 10. Reading L1 and L2: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence . Chapter 11. Identification of Grammatical Functions in Two Languages.