1st Edition
A Transdisciplinary Lens for Bilingual Education Bridging Cognitive, Sociocultural, and Sociolinguistic Approaches to Enhance Student Learning
Addressing the intersections between cognitive, sociocultural, and sociolinguistic research, this volume explores bilingual development across educational contexts to discuss and uncover the influences and impact of language in school programming and everyday practices. Confronting a standard monolingual lens, this collection highlights the importance of applying cross-disciplinary approaches to examine bilingualism in relation to topics such as language politics, linguistic identities, students’ experiences at home and in schools, asset-based teaching and curricula, and overall benefits.
Ideal for courses in bilingualism, literacy, psychology, and language education, this text is an important resource for understanding and applying transdisciplinary, inclusive approaches to positively influence cognitive development, academic learning, and identity formation in bilingual education.
Part 1 Bridging Diverse Voices on Language
1 Synergetic Themes in Cognitive and Sociocultural Bilingualism Research: Moving Toward a Transdisciplinary Approach
Sibylla Leon Guerrero and Gigi Luk
2 The Role of Diverse Linguistic Experiences in Young Children’s Cognitive And Language Development
Natsuki Atagi and Sirada Rochanavibhata
3 More Than One Language: Understanding the Educational Benefits of Bilingualism
Roberta Spelorzi, Eva-Maria Schnelten, Candice Mathers, and Antonella Sorace
4 Enhancing the Reading Abilities of Struggling English Learners
Fred Genesee
5 Migrating While Multilingual and Black: Beyond the "(Bi)Dialectal" Burden
Patriann Smith and S. Joel Warrican
Part 2 Exploring New Approaches to Language in the Classroom
6 Translanguaging in Literacy: Strategies, Pedagogies, and Theories for Multilingual: iteracy Learning
James R. King
7 More Deeply "Knowing The Children": Bringing a Translanguaging Approach to Writing Conferences in the Early Literacy Classroom
Emily Machado and Paul Hartman
8 Translanguaging and Semiotic Repertoires: A Holistic Examination of Instructional Resources in Dual Language Teaching
Bingjie Zheng
9 Connecting Curricula to Families: Guiding Principles for Using Funds of Identity to Select Children’s Literature
Laura May, Carina Windom, Rosalyn Harvey-Torres, and Yolanda V. Santini-Díaz
10 Talking About Language in Bilingual Teacher Education: A Teacher Educator’s Approach to Guiding Teacher Candidates’ Understandings of Holistic Bilingualism
Christian E. Zúñiga
11 From English Language Learner to Spanish Teacher: The Testimonios of Heritage Spanish Speakers Who Became Spanish as a Heritage Language (SHL) Teachers
Nancy Domínguez-Fret and P. Zitlali Morales
Biography
Eurydice Bauer is Professor, the John E. Swearingen Chair of Education, and the Director of the Center of Bilingualism Matters at the University of South Carolina, USA.
Lenny Sánchez is Associate Professor of Language and Literacy Education and Co-Director of the Center of Bilingualism Matters at the University of South Carolina, USA.
Yang Wang is Associate Professor of Language and Literacy Education and Co-Director of the Center of Bilingualism Matters at the University of South Carolina, USA.
Andrea Vaughan is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Center for Literacy, where she studies community-based literacy learning and teaching.
