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Bilingualism

Index of SIL publications on Bilingualism listed by country.

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General works

• Easthouse, Linda Orr. 2000. "Volverse bilingüe es todo un modo de vida."
• Grimes, Barbara F. 1985. "Comprehension and language attitudes in relation to language choice for literature and education in pre-literate societies."
• Grimes, Barbara F. 1986. "Evaluating bilingual proficiency in language groups for cross-cultural communciation."
• Grimes, Barbara F. 1987. "How bilingual is bilingual?."
• Grimes, Barbara F. 1988. "On bilingual proficiency thresholds."
• Grimes, Barbara F. 1990. "‘Reached’ without the Scriptures?."
• Grimes, Barbara F. 1992. "From every language."
• Haugen, Einar. 1979. "An ecological model for bilingualism."
• Hoatson, Kristen. 2001. Review of: Foundations of bilingual education and bilingualism, by Colin Baker.
• Lander, James A. 1993. Review of: The acquisition of two languages from birth: a case study, by Annick De Houwer.
• Lester, Martha. 1993. Review of: Ways with words, by Shirley Brice Heath.
• Mackey, William Francis. 1997. "International Centre for Research on Bilingualism: the sociolinguistics of language contact."
• Nicolle, Alison and Steve Nicolle. 2006. Review of: Contact linguistics: bilingual encounters and grammatical outcomes, by Carol Myers-Scotton.  
• Nivens, Richard. 1998. Review of: One speaker, two languages: cross-disciplinary perspectives on code-switching, by Lesley Milroy and Pieter Muysken, editors.
• Radloff, Carla F. 1992. "Sentence repetition testing for studies of community bilingualism: An introduction."
• Rensch, Calvin R. 1991. "Indicators of second-language proficiency."
• Tiessen, Gabriela and others. 2005. "Language access and Tajik language proficiency among the Yazghulami of Tajikistan."
• Unseth, Peter. 1991. Review of: Bilinguality and bilingualism, by Josiane Hamers and Michel Blanc.

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Burkina Faso

• Hatfield, Deborah H., Marie C. South and Stuart D. Showalter. 2007. "The sentence repetition test (SRT) revisited: evaluation of the SRT against the Second Language Oral Proficiency Evaluation (SLOPE) as an assessment tool for community bilingual proficiency."  
• Showalter, Stuart D. 1993. "Alternative bilingualism measures: a field test report."
• Showalter, Stuart D. 2008. "Un profil du bilinguisme en dioula au sud-ouest du Burkina Faso."  

Cameroon

• Crawford, Karyn. 2005. "Lexicostatistics and intelligibility testing survey with simplified SLOPE of the Mefele language."  
• Hatfield, Deborah H., Marie C. South and Stuart D. Showalter. 2007. "The sentence repetition test (SRT) revisited: evaluation of the SRT against the Second Language Oral Proficiency Evaluation (SLOPE) as an assessment tool for community bilingual proficiency."  
• Lamberty, Melinda. 2002. "A survey of Mofu intelligibility for Cuvok speakers (Mayo-Tsanaga Division, Far North Province)."  
• Mbongue, Joseph. 2005. "Evaluation sociolinguistique du niveau de bilinguisme chez les Ndaˀndaˀ."  
• South, Marie C. 2007. "Cameroon Bilingualism Test Comparison Study Report."  

Chad

• Hutchinson, Noelle and Eric Johnson. 2006. "A sociolinguistic survey of the Ubi language of Chad."  

Congo

• Phillips, John. 1992. Developing a sentence repetition test to study Lingala bilingualism.

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Leitch, Myles. 2005. "Aspects of multilingualism in the Lingala zone of Congo."  

Ethiopia

• Kusia Shenkere, Dinote and others. 1994. "Second survey of language of the Gawwada, Tsamay and Diraasha areas with excursions to Birayle (Ongota) and Arbore (Irbore), report part 1."
• Yilma, Aklilu. 2002. "Pilot survey of bilingualism in Yem."  

Kenya

• Bergman, Ted G. 1987. "The Summer Institute of Linguistics second language oral proficiency evaluation."

Americas

Brazil

• Mullen, Paul and Paulino Vandresen. 1986. "O bilingüísmo xokleng/português no Posto Duque de Caxias."

Chile

• Weber, Robert L. 1988. "Procesos fonológicos en la adquisición ‘naturalista’ del español por los rapa nui de la Isla de Pascua."

Guatemala

• Echerd, Stephen M. 1980. "Mayan bilingualism: Is vernacular literacy really justified?."
• Johnson, Merieta K. 1991. "Slippery lingualism: Are all bilinguals really bilingual: Some preliminary thoughts."

Peru

• Daggett, James. 1990. "Determinando el bilingüismo y evaluando las posibilidades de la educación bilingüe en las comunidades rurales del Perú."  

Asia

China

• Chan, Kenneth. 2008. "A bilingualism and language vitality survey of the Gan Yi in the Yi Mei Duo village of the Shilin County of the Yunnan Provice of China."  

Indonesia

• Andersen, T. David. 1993. "Measuring bilingualism in rural Sulawesi."

Malaysia

• Lasimbang, Rita, Carolyn Miller, and Francis Otigil. 1992. "Language competence and use among Coastal Kadazan children: a survey report."

Nepal

• Webster, Jeff. 1996. "Survey of Nepali bilingualism among Magars of the Nawalparasi hills."
• Webster, Jeffrey D. 1995. Indicators of bilingual proficiency in Nepali among Tibeto-Burman peoples of Nepal.
• Webster, Jeffrey D. 1997. "Indicators of bilingual proficiency in Nepali among Tibeto-Burman peoples of Nepal."

Pakistan

• Radloff, Carla F. 1991. "Avenues of acquisition of Urdu proficiency for Hindko-speaking women of Hazara division (Pakistan)."
• Radloff, Carla F. 1991. Sentence repetition testing for studies of community bilingualism.  

Philippines

• Elkins, Richard E. 1977. "Bilingualism and the vernacular among linguistic minorities."
• Quakenbush, J. Stephen. 1986. Language use and proficiency in a multilingual setting: a sociolinguistic survey of Agutaynen speakers in Palawan, Philippines.

Tajikistan

• Clifton, John M., editor. 2005. Studies in languages of Tajikistan.
• Müller, Katja and others. 2005. "Language in community-oriented and contact-oriented domains: the case of the Shughni of Tajikistan."

Thailand

• Nahhas, Ramzi W. 2007. "Sociolinguistic survey of Mpi in Thailand."  

Pacific

Australia

• Sommer, Bruce A. and James Marsh. 1969. "Vernacular and English: Language comprehension by some North Queensland Aborigines."

Papua New Guinea

• Chatterton, P. 1968. "The language factor in territory education."