Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family

Xiao-lei Wang

ISBN 10: 1847693695 / ISBN 13: 9781847693693

Published by Channel View Publications Ltd, GB, 2011

About this Item

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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family
• Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd, GB
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847693695
• ISBN 13: 9781847693693
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 318 grams

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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 parents’ associations and academic conferences.