1st Edition

Trilingual Education of Uyghur Children Phonological Awareness, Language Acquisition and Literacy Development

By Wei Xiaobao Copyright 2024
238 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Given the differences in the orthographic structure of the Uyghur, Chinese and English languages, this study used a mixed-method approach to systematically describe and analyze the phonological awareness of Uyghur bilingual children as English learners and its contributions to their trilingual literacy acquisition and development. Focusing on the development of these learners' phonological... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Literature review  3. The phonological awareness development of Uyghur bilingual children as English learners  4. Differing components of phonological awareness in predicting Uyghur bilingual children’s literacy development  5. Effects of cross-language literacy experience on Uyghur children’s phonological awareness development and literacy development  6. The effect of phonological awareness training on Uyghur children’s phonological awareness development and literacy development  7. Conclusions

Biography

Wei Xiaobao is Professor at the East China University of Science and Technology. Currently, he is Director of Institute of Foreign Languages, Director of Cognitive Neurolinguistics Laboratory and a research expert of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education. His research interests include children's literacy development, bilingual education and second language acquisition.