TY - JOUR
AU - Degollado, Enrique
AB - Lang Policy (2016) 15:203–205 DOI 10.1007/s10993-015-9362-2 BOOK REVIEW Rebecca M. Callahan and Patricia C. Ga´ndara (Eds.): The Bilingual Advantage: Language Literacy and the US Labor Market Multilingual Matters, Bristol, Buffalo and Toronto, 2014, 304 pp, Pb $39.95, ISBN 9781783092413 Enrique David Degollado Received: 21 March 2015 / Accepted: 23 March 2015 / Published online: 31 March 2015 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015 The Bilingual Advantage: Language, Literacy and the US Labor Market seeks to better understand the economic benefits of being bilingual in the United States. As the US population of speakers of other languages continues to increase, and the question of bilingual education looms over California, this book details the need for bilingual education in the United States and shows how researchers, educators, and policy makers can influence the debate. In their introductory chapter, the editors contextualize what it means to be bilingual in the United States. Drawing on mostly quantitative and but also some qualitative studies, they postulate that bilingualism in the twenty-first century is advantageous in an era of globalization. However, they posit that Americans have a ‘‘schizophrenic’’ attitude towards bilingualism: while claiming to be the land of immigrants and accepting of diversity, Americans simultaneously require 
TI - Rebecca M. Callahan and Patricia C. Gándara (Eds.): The Bilingual Advantage: Language Literacy and the US Labor Market
JF - Language Policy
DO - 10.1007/s10993-015-9362-2
DA - 2015-03-31
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/rebecca-m-callahan-and-patricia-c-g-ndara-eds-the-bilingual-advantage-hUcWHU7Ng0
SP - 203
EP - 205
VL - 15
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -