Profiles in Emergent Biliteracy
Children Making Meaning in a Chicano Community
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Beschreibung
How do young children learn to read, write, speak, and listen in two languages? How do emergent readers and writers make meaning within multilingual communities? This book examines the emergent biliteracy development of two kindergarteners growing up in a New Mexican neighborhood. Using ethnographic accounts, the book portrays the familial, communal, and academic contexts in which the children appropriated dual proficiencies in English and Spanish, and provides a window into the homes and lives of these working-class boys and the political, philosophical, and pedagogical world of their bilingual kindergarten. The complexity of emergent biliteracy as a sociocultural-semiotic process is elaborated through Vygotskian theory, the multiple voices of these children, and the action research of their teacher.
Autor*in
M. Cathrene Connery
Themen in »Profiles in Emergent Biliteracy«
emergent literacy bilingualism biliteracy educational psychology Vygotsky bilingual education kindergarten Chicano Hispanic Studies early childhood education Latino cultural-historical theory