Current Research in Bilingualism and Bilingual Education

Introduction.- Part I: LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF BILINGUALISM.- Strategies of communication in an NNB family - on the way to bilingual maintenance in a monolingual context - Piotr Romanowski.- Is there a relationship between language competences and metalinguistic awareness? - Zofia Chlopek.- Two grammars in the input - two different strategies to process the input. The usage-based perspective on the development of nominal inflection in a bilingual child - Dorota Gaskins.- Codeswitching in French as foreign language classes in Malta: Implications for learning - Anne-Marie Bezzina & Joanne Gauci.- Understanding linguistic features of Estonian-Latvian bilingual speech - Anna Verschik & Elina Bone.- Part II: LANGUAGE TEACHING ASPECTS OF BILINGUALISM.- Learning fractions through two languages in an elementary classroom: the interrelation of Maltese and English with the mathematics register(s) - Marie Therese Farrugia.- Are classroom requestssimilar in all EFL settings? Focusing on a young multilingual learning environment - Pilar Safont.- Teaching English in a multilingual classroom: Addressing challenges through teacher education and development - Daniel Xerri.- Bilingualism with English as a "second language" and/or broad plurilingual repertoires: A Swiss point of view - Georges Lüdi.- Part III: LANGUAGE EDUCATION ASPECTS OF BILINGUALISM.- Stop the deficit: Preparing pre-service teachers to work with bilingual students in the United States - Johanna Ennser-Kananen & Christine Montecillo Leider.- Discursive techniques in heritage language education - Corinne A. Seals.- The evolution of bilingual education in monolingual settings: An Andalusian case study - María Luisa Pérez Cañado.