Bilingual Education: A Dialogue with the Bakhtin Circle

Examines the theories of Bakhtin and Freire in relation to bilingual education and second language learning.Bilingual Education: A Dialogue with the Bakhtin Circle is the first book to make a connection between bilingual education and the theories of the Bakhtin circle. The analysis is focused on language as a social entity from the perspective of Bakhtinian dialogic existence. The author includes a discussion of critical/radical pedagogy connected to Paulo Freire's dialogic pedagogy. Also addressed are the major laws and policies of bilingual education in the U. S. and the current debate involving English-only versus English-plus instruction.

• | Author: Marcia Moraes
• | Publisher: State University of New York Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 03, 1996
• | Number of Pages: 159 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0791430227
• | ISBN-13: 9780791430224