Early Biliteracy Development

Description

At the forefront in focusing exclusively on biliteracy development in early childhood across a variety of languages, this book fills a pressing need for a resource that provides both findings from empirical research with young bilinguals from preschool to grade 3 in home and school contexts and practical applications of these findings. Part I provides a contextual and conceptual framework that encompasses the specific need to do systematic research on emergent biliteracy development and its transition into conventional literacy in two languages during the early years. Part II focuses on the various factors/skills that impact young bilinguals’ literacy development across different languages, with attention to both reading and/or writing. Pushing the field forward, this book is a valuable resource for helping literacy educators understand and respond to critical issues related to the development of young children’s literate competencies in two languages in home and school contexts.

Contents

Preface

1. Introduction: Holistic Approaches to Bilingual/Biliteracy Development, Instruction, and Research

Eurydice Bauer and Mileidis Gort

Part I: Emergence of Biliteracy: The Preschool Years

Preschool Vignette

Eurydice Bauer and Mileidis Gort

2. Learning to Read in Two Languages: Insights into One Bilingual's Approaches

Eurydice Bauer

3. Literacy Practices and Language Use among Latino Emergent Bilingual Children in Preschool

Lucinda Soltero- and Iliana Reyes

4. A Microgenetic Analysis of English-Chinese Early Writing Development: Conceptual Crossovers Between English and Chinese

Tina Tsai and David B. Yaden, Jr.

Part II: Biliteracy Development in Early Elementary School

Early Grades Vignette

Eurydice Bauer and Mileidis Gort

5. Evaluation and Revision Practices of Young Bilinguals

Mileidis Gort

6. One Child’s Biliteracy Development in Turkish and English

Zeynep C. Camlibel

7. The Evolution of Biliterate Writing Development through Simultaneous Bilingual Literacy Instruction
8. Wendy Sparrow, Sandra Butvilofsky, and Kathy Escamilla
9. Traveling on the Biliteracy Highway: More Like a Dance

María E. Fránquiz

Afterword: Reflections and Directions for Biliteracy Research

Georgia Earnest García

Author Bio

Eurydice Bouchereau Bauer is Associate Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Mileidis Gort is Assistant Professor of Language and Literacy at the University of Miami, School of Education.

Related Subjects

1. Bilingualism / ESL
2. Bilingualism - Second Language
3. English & Literacy/Language Arts