TY - JOUR
AU - Wei, Li
AB - Lang Policy (2015) 14:285–287 DOI 10.1007/s10993-013-9305-8 BOOK REVIEW Ofelia Garcı´a, Zeena Zakharia and Bahar Otcu (eds): Bilingual Community Education and Multilingualism: Beyond Heritage Languages in a Global City Multilingual Matters, Bristol, UK, 2013, xvii + 343 pp., Pb £23.96, ISBN 978184769799 Li Wei Received: 13 November 2013 / Accepted: 21 November 2013 / Published online: 4 December 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013 It is remarkable how much effort goes into the education of the young by ethnic minority and immigrant communities worldwide, even when some of the communities may be experiencing socio-economic disadvantages of various kinds. Such effort takes different shapes and occurs in schools, churches, playgrounds, temples, synagogues, community-based organizations, storefronts, playgrounds, homes, hair salons and other places, as the contributors to the present volume show through their detailed and insightful case studies. The editors of the volume call the different types of educational effort organised by ethnolinguistic communities ‘bilingual community education’, which goes beyond the traditionally understood heritage language education and bilingual education. What the various types of bilingual community education efforts have in common, as the editors point out, is the close and deep involvement of parents and communities with the objective of providing opportunities 
TI - Ofelia García, Zeena Zakharia and Bahar Otcu (eds): Bilingual Community Education and Multilingualism: Beyond Heritage Languages in a Global City
JF - Language Policy
DO - 10.1007/s10993-013-9305-8
DA - 2013-12-04
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/ofelia-garc-a-zeena-zakharia-and-bahar-otcu-eds-bilingual-community-RYqCde7D70
SP - 285
EP - 287
VL - 14
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -