Problem Training in Bilingual Education

Critical Research Issues in Bilingual Secondary Education

Researchers continue to be interested in those subjects generally regarded as fundamental to bilingual education: second language acquisition, biliteracy, curriculum development, dual language pedagogy, the relation of first and second language development, assessment of language development in bilinguals, and others. Studies in these areas should and no doubt will continue. My task in this pre...

Bilingual Education for China’s Ethnic Minorities

Bilingual education searching for promising didactic proposals

In the Basque context, the English-French bilingual education systems from Canada and Quebec are considered an indispensable reference for the Basque-Spanish and Basque-French bilingual schools, which, for the approximately last 40 years, constitute a keystone for the revitalization process of the Basque language (Zalbide, 1998). One of the crucial contributions of English-French bilingual educ...

Cognitive Development in Bilingual Children: a Case for Bilingual Instruction in Early Childhood Education

This article overviews the research on the complex relationship between bilingualism and cognitive development and the important implications of this relationship for bilingual education. Recent studies are discussed that examine the cognitive development in bilingual children with regard to metalinguistic awareness, concept formation, and analogical reasoning. A case is made for additive bilin...

Adversarial Training for Unsupervised Bilingual Lexicon Induction

Word embeddings are well known to capture linguistic regularities of the language on which they are trained. Researchers also observe that these regularities can transfer across languages. However, previous endeavors to connect separate monolingual word embeddings typically require cross-lingual signals as supervision, either in the form of parallel corpus or seed lexicon. In this work, we show...