1st Edition
Bilingual Literacy Development at Home A Longitudinal Ethnographic Exploration of Bilingual Reading and Writing
By Yang Wang
Copyright 2026
150 Pages
25 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
150 Pages
25 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
150 Pages
25 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book explores pedagogical implications for how children read, write, respond to literature, and begin to learn an additional language in the home context.
Using a longitudinal ethnographic study, it explores a bilingual child’s literacy development over a span of four years from kindergarten to the third grade in a real-life home context in the United States. Written from a... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Developing Bilingual Literacies: Reading in English and in Mandarin Chinese 3. A Thousand Days of Journaling: A Multilingual, Multimodal, Multigenre Home Writing Practice 4. Books, Discussions, and Artifacts: Reading and Responding to Bilingual and Bicultural Children’s Literature Books 5. “好! Fine! ¡Perfecto!”: Journey to Becoming Trilingual 6. Concluding Thoughts
Biography
Yang Wang is Professor in Language and Literacy in the Department of Teacher Education at the University of South Carolina, U.S.A.
