Introduction: multilingualism and education: the critical nexus
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Language Processing in Bilingual Children
1. Language modules and bilingual processing Michael Sharwood Smith 2. Phonological processing in two languages Ian Watson 3. Second language learning in children: a model of language learning in social context Lily Wong Fillmore 4. Interdependence of first and second language proficiency in bilingual children Jim Cummins 5. Giving formal definitions: a linguistic or metalinguistic skill? Catherine E. Snow 6. Metalinguistic dimensions of bilingual language proficiency Ellen Bialystock 7. Translation skill and metalinguistic awareness in bilinguals Marguerite Malakoff and Kenji Hakuta 8. Towards an explanatory model of the interaction between bilingualism and cognitive development Rafael M. Diaz and Cynthia Klingler 9. Constructive processes in bilingualism and their cognitive growth effects Janice Johnson 10. Language cognition, and education of bilingual children Ellen Bialystock and Jim Cummins.
The Cosmopolitan Imagination: The Renewal of Critical Social Theory
Gerard Delanty provides a comprehensive assessment of the idea of cosmopolitanism in social and political thought which links cosmopolitan theory with critical social theory. He argues that cosmopolitanism has a critical dimension which offers a solution to one of the weaknesses in the critical theory tradition: failure to respond to the challenges of globalization and intercultural communication. Critical cosmopolitanism, he proposes, is an approach that is not only relevant to social scientific analysis but also normatively grounded in a critical attitude. Delanty's argument for a critical, sociologically oriented cosmopolitanism aims to avoid, on the one hand, purely normative conceptions of cosmopolitanism and, on the other, approaches that reduce cosmopolitanism to the empirical expression of diversity. He attempts to take cosmopolitan theory beyond the largely Western context with which it has generally been associated, claiming that cosmopolitan analysis must now take into account non-Western expressions of cosmopolitanism.