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NG BEE CHIN AND GILLIAN WIGGLESWORTH, BILINGUALISM: AN ADVANCED RESOURCE BOOK (Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2007) Research Centre for Languages and Cultures, University of South Australia
This book presents a lucid and analytical account of the bi-/multilingual phenomenon from both a cognitive and sociolinguistic perspective. It explores the following topics in an interactive style, which encourages the reader to think about application of the following key issues in bilingual research:
1. Describing bilingualism
2. Measuring bilingualism
3. Bilingual acquisition
4. Bilingualism and cognitive ability
5. Language attrition in bilinguals
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