1st Edition
Becoming Biliterate Identity, Ideology, and Learning to Read and Write in Two Languages
By Bobbie Kabuto
Copyright 2011
158 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
160 Pages
by
Routledge
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Through the real-life context of one child learning to be bilingual and biliterate, this book raises questions and provides a context for pre-service and practicing teachers to understand and reflect on how children learn to read and write in multiple languages. Highlighting the social and cognitive advantages of biliteracy, its purpose is to help teachers better understand the complexity by... Read more
Foreword Denny Taylor Preface 1. Introduction: A New Way of Thinking about Biliteracy 2. Emma as a Young Child 3. Writing Across Writing Systems: Theoretical Approaches 4. Writing and Drawing as Active Discovery 5. Early Writing as Social Practice: The Self in Action 6. Reading as Social Practice: Breaking the Code of Code-switching 7. "I Don’t Want to be Japanese Anymore": When Emma Met School 8. The Journey of Becoming Biliterate References
Biography
Bobbie Kabuto is Assistant Professor of Literacy Education in the Department of Elementary and Early Childhood Education, Queens College, City University of New York.
