| Profiles in Emergent Biliteracy: Children Making Meaning in a Chicano Community Contributor(s): Goodman, Greg S. (Other), Connery, M. Cathrene (Author) |
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ISBN: 1433108631 ISBN-13: 9781433108631 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $171.07 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Elementary - Language Arts & Disciplines - Psychology | Developmental - Adolescent |
| Dewey: 372.182 |
| LCCN: 2011029460 |
| Series: Educational Psychology: Critical Pedagogical Perspectives |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.95 lbs) 167 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |