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Bhatia, T.K. and Ritchie, W.C. (2007) The Handbook of Bilingualism. Malden, MA:
Blackwell Publishing.
This book reviews the foundations of bilingualism and offers an in-depth discussion
of its various aspects including CS. In particular, the reader will fi nd a wealth
of information about CS in the section ‘The Bilingual Repertoire: Code Mixing and
Code Switching and Speech Accommodation’ (pp. 282–378), and in the section
‘Bilingualism: The Media, Education, and Literacy’ (pp. 512–601).
Jones, G.M. (ed.) (1996) Bilingualism through the classroom: Strategies and practices.
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. Special Issue 17 (2–4).
Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
The articles in this volume explore topics in language practices in bilingual classrooms
and how bilingual education policies are realized by teachers, with a focus
on Asia. Language teachers will fi nd the following articles of particular interest,
for they all deal with classroom CS: ‘Using two/Three Languages in Philippine
Classrooms’ by Andrew Gonzales; ‘Mother Tongue Use in Bilingual/Bidialectal
Education’ by Carl James; and ‘Codeswitching in the Primary Classroom: One
Response to the Planned and the Unplanned Language Environment in Brunei’ by
Peter W. Martin.
Milroy, L. and Muysken, P. (eds) (1995) One Speaker, Two Languages: Cross-Disciplinary
Perspectives on Code-Switching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
This collection offers a number of cross-disciplinary perspectives on codeswitching,
including grammatical, sociolinguistic, and psycholinguistic perspectives.
The reader will fi nd the fi rst two parts of the book very informative, for they provide
insights into CS in institutional and community settings, as well as into its
occurrence in everyday bilingual encounters.
Paradis, M. (ed.) (1978) Aspects of Bilingualism. Columbia, SC: Hornbean Press.
Published about 30 years ago, this volume remains a valuable resource, for it offers
the reader the background knowledge against which current developments in CS
research can be better understood. In particular, the volume provides insights into
various aspects of CS, ranging from developmental aspects, linguistic aspects,
pedagogical aspects, and neurolinguistic aspects, to sociolinguistic aspects of CS.
Slotte-Luttge, A. (2007) Making use of bilingualism – construction of a monolingual
classroom and consequences. International Journal of the Sociology of
Language 187/188, 103–128.
This article is an empirical study of Swedish-Finnish codeswitching in Finland.
More specifi cally, the article examines classroom discourse in a Swedish-speaking
school in a Finnish-dominated area. Its aim is to show how linguistic norms are
maintained, and what the implications of these norms are for participating pupils
in classroom interaction.
Yeh, Christine J., Jennifer Chen, Agnes Kwong, Lilian Chiang, Yu-Wei Wand and
Florence Pu-Folkes (2002) Educators of Asian bilingual students: Pedagogical
techniques, strategies and challenges. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural
Development 23 (4), 296–315.
As the title indicates, this paper explores pedagogical strategies and challenges in
the education of Asian bilingual students in the United States. This it does by
examining the strengths and weaknesses of educators teaching Asian bilingual
students, and discussing the activities, training and resources that Asian bilingual
educators believe would help them improve their teaching. The paper lists the
following as pedagogical challenges facing Asian bilingual teachers: lack of culturally
relevant teaching materials, varying language profi ciencies, and overcrowded