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Part 1 Individual bilingualism: what is a bilingual?; bilingualism andthe family; the everday use of bilinguals; bilingualism and thinking;measurement of bilingualism. Part 2 Bilingualism in society: bilingualism incommunities; how many languages are there in the world? - languages incontact, the mapping of languages in the world, presentation of languagemaps; language change; language planning and evolution; bilingualism andculture; bilingualism and politics. Part 3 Bilingual education: the aims ofbilingual education; weak forms of bilingual education; strong forms ofbilingual education; bilingual education and the community; bilingualeducation in the United States; bilingual eduation for students with specialneeds; bilingual education for the deaf and hearing impaired; languageawareness; multiculturalism in education; the bilingual classroom; factorsaffecting second languae acquistion; second language learning in theclassroom.