Comprehensive introduction for all professionals working with bilingual children. For speech therapists, doctors, psychologists, counselors, teachers, and special needs personnel. The book addresses among other issues: the nature of bilingual children, everyday language use of bilinguals, children as interpreters, code switching, dialects and bilingualism, home and school relationships, bilingual classrooms, language delay and language disorder

This book is very detailed and sometimes difficult to read, but it has many good ideas for teaching activities. There are thorough explanations of the pronunciation of individual sounds and of suprasegmental features. It makes a wonderful resource for future use. It includes two CDs of examples and exercises. Based on American English pronunciation

The book chronicles one of the most complex peace-keeping operations in the history of the United Nations - the United NAtions Transitional Authority in Cambodia - and brings together, for the first time, the texts of more than 100 key United Nations documents relating to what was, at the time, an unprecedented endeavour in both size and scope.