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Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family
Xiao-Lei Wang
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Description for Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family
Paperback. Drawing on interdisciplinary research, as well as the experiences of parents of multilingual children, this book walks parents through the multilingual reading and writing process from infancy to adolescence. It identifies essential skills at each developmental stage and proposes effective strategies that facilitate multiliteracy. Series: Parents' and Teachers' Guides. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: CFDC; CFDM; VFXC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 171 x 11. Weight in Grams: 316.
This book is a guide for parents who wish to raise children with more than one language and literacy. Drawing on interdisciplinary research, as well as the experiences of parents of multilingual children, this book walks parents through the multilingual reading and writing process from infancy to adolescence. It identifies essential literacy skills at each developmental stage and proposes effective strategies that facilitate multiliteracy, in particular, heritage-language literacy development in the home environment. This book can also be used as a reference for teachers who teach in community heritage language schools and in school heritage (or foreign) language programmes.
This book is a guide for parents who wish to raise children with more than one language and literacy. Drawing on interdisciplinary research, as well as the experiences of parents of multilingual children, this book walks parents through the multilingual reading and writing process from infancy to adolescence. It identifies essential literacy skills at each developmental stage and proposes effective strategies that facilitate multiliteracy, in particular, heritage-language literacy development in the home environment. This book can also be used as a reference for teachers who teach in community heritage language schools and in school heritage (or foreign) language programmes.
Product Details
Publisher
Channel View Publications Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Parents' and Teachers' Guides
Condition
New
Weight
316g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847693693
SKU
V9781847693693
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99-15
About Xiao-Lei Wang
Xiao-lei Wang is Professor and Acting Dean of the School of Education at Pace University, USA. She is the author of Growing up with Three Languages: Birth to Eleven (Multilingual Matters, 2008) and Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family (Multilingual Matters, 2011). She is a regular speaker on child development and parenting at local, national and international ... Read more
Reviews for Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family
This excellent book draws on the latest research to explain how multilingual literacy learning can be fostered at different ages from early childhood to adolescence. Parents will discover how to work together with their child to devise a range of creative activities that bring literacy alive through games, roleplay, literature and multimedia. The author shows that literacy development in more ... Read more