ORGANIZING RESEARCH ON BILINGUALISM: THE ICRB STORY

Authors

  • William Francis Mackey

Abstract

Only ten years ago the International Center for Research in Bilingualism came into being under international auspices, at Laval University in Quebec City. It found itself with an immense task to do in simply clearing the ground and systematising work already done, let alone in indicating key research in a field which meanwhile was receiving urgent and highly politicised attention in the Center's immediate community. Like any pioneering institution, it quickly discovered alarming gaps in what was known, notwithstanding a need to know that concerned millions of people all over the face of the globe. Professor Mackey, a participant in the Centre since before its foundation, here delineates its work and its problems in documentation, in research, and in the various publication series it has initiated.

Author Biography

William Francis Mackey

William Francis Mackey, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and member of other national academies, has worked with the government language commissions of Canada, Quebec, Ireland, and Australia. Contributor to the Encyclopaedia Britannica and other reference works, he is the author of over a hundred articles on bilingualism, language didactics and language policy, and of some two dozen books, the best known of which are Language Teaching Analysis and Bilinguisme et contact des iangues.

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Published

1978-04-01

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Mackey, W. F. (1978). ORGANIZING RESEARCH ON BILINGUALISM: THE ICRB STORY. McGill Journal of Education / Revue Des Sciences De l’éducation De McGill, 13(002). Retrieved from https://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/7198

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Vol. 13 No. 002 (1978)

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