Multicultural and Multilingual Literacy and Language
Multicultural and Multilingual Literacy and Language

Author: Fenice B. Boyd

Publisher: Guilford Press

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9781572309616

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Within a clear conceptual framework, this book explores ways that teachers, reading specialists, administrators, and teacher educators can provide more effective literacy instruction to K-9 students from diverse ethnic, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds. Cutting-edge theory and research is interwoven with detailed case studies that bring to life the complexities of teaching in today's multicultural and multilingual classroom. Topics covered include: *How and why culture matters in literacy instruction *Drawing on students' multiple literacies in the classroom *Motivating and engaging English-language learners *Steps that teachers can take to heighten their cultural awareness and skills *Tapping into family and community resources for literacy learning

Literacy Development in A Multilingual Context
Literacy Development in A Multilingual Context

Author: Aydin Y. Durgunoglu

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-16

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13: 1135456267

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During the past decades, literacy has gradually become a major concern all over the world. Though there is a great diversity in both the distribution and degree of literacy in different countries, there has been an increasing awareness of the number of illiterates and the consequences of being illiterate. However, literacy is no longer seen as a universal trait. When one focuses on culturally-sensitive accounts of reading and writing practices, the concept of literacy as a single trait does not seem very feasible. A multiplicity of literacy practices can be distinguished which are related to specific cultural contexts and associated with relations of power and ideology. As such, literacy can be seen as a lifelong context-bound set of practices in which an individual's needs vary with time and place. This volume explores the use of literacy outside the mainstream in different contexts throughout the world. It is divided into four sections. Section 1 presents an anthropological perspective--analyzing the society and the individual in a society. Section 2 presents a psychological perspective--focusing on the individuals themselves and analyzing the cognitive and affective development of young children as they acquire literacy in their first and second languages. Section 3 presents an educational perspective--highlighting the variations in educational approaches in different societies as well as the outcomes of these approaches. Section 4 summarizes the studies presented in this volume. Both theoretical issues and educational implications related to the development of literacy in two languages are discussed. An attempt is also made to open up new directions in the study of literacy development in multilingual contexts by bringing these various disciplinary perspectives together.

Language and Aging in Multilingual Contexts
Language and Aging in Multilingual Contexts

Author: Kees De Bot

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9781853598401

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In this book different aspects of language and aging are discussed. While language spoken by and language spoken with elderly people have been treated as different areas of research, it is argued here that from a dynamical system perspective the two are closely interrelated. In addition to overviews of research on language and aging, a number of projects on this topic in multilingual settings are presented.

Sociocultural Contexts of Language and Literacy
Sociocultural Contexts of Language and Literacy

Author: Teresa L. McCarty

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2004-05-20

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 113563016X

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Nine American academics, educational consultants, and bilingual/bicultural program development specialists contribute 12 chapters in a research- and theory-based text about learning and teaching in linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms. The second edition features updated research on multilingual and second-language literacy, and the int.

Teenagers, Literacy and School
Teenagers, Literacy and School

Author: Ken Cruickshank

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-09-27

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1134220057

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This unique and timely book follows the experiences of four Arabic teenagers, their families and their community, focusing on the role of literacy in their daily lives and the differences between home and school. The author looks at the conflict between expectations and practices at school and in the home, arguing that problems are inevitable where class and cultural differences exist. Emerging themes include: how literacy practices in the community are undergoing rapid change due to global developments in technology how the patterns of written and spoken language in English and Arabic in the home are linked with social practices in logical and coherent ways how many of the family practices that differ from school culture and language become marginalised. Built around these insightful case studies yet grounded in theory, this book is of immediate relevance to teachers working in multicultural contexts and students and lecturers in language/literacy or on TESOL courses.

Multilingual Literacies
Multilingual Literacies

Author: Marilyn Martin-Jones

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 2001-01-12

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9027298688

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The research in this unique collection lies at the interface between the fields of bilingualism and literacy. It deepens our understanding of the significance of reading and writing as social practices and opens up new lines of inquiry for research on multilingualism. The authors incorporate theoretical and methodological insights from both fields and provide detailed accounts of everyday practices of reading and writing in different multilingual settings. The focus is primarily on linguistic minority groups in Britain and on the language and literacy experiences of children and adults in rural and urban communities. Together, the chapters of the volume build up a rich and illuminating picture of specific ways in which literacy is bound up with cultural practices and with different ways of seeing the world. They also address fundamental questions about the relationship between language, literacy and power in multi-ethnic contexts.

Deaf Education and Challenges for Bilingual/Multilingual Students
Deaf Education and Challenges for Bilingual/Multilingual Students

Author: Millicent Musyoka

Publisher:

Published: 2021-07

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9781799881827

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"This book attempts to fill the gap in educational resources for teaching immigrant, multilingual, and multicultural deaf students in all learning institutions across the world by offering contributed chapters on knowledge, skills, and dispositions for teaching multicultural, multilingual, immigrant D/HH students globally"--

Language Disabilities in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity
Language Disabilities in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity

Author: Deirdre Martin

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1847691595

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Language Disabilities in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity offers a new approach to understanding the familiar dilemma of disentangling difficulties in communication for learners developing the language of schooling. The author takes a socio-cultural Vygotskian approach to reinterpret international research in language disabilities, namely specific language impairment, communication difficulties, dyslexia and deafness.

Awareness Matters
Awareness Matters

Author: Claudia Finkbeiner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-01-22

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1317655818

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This collection argues that being aware of and reflecting on language form and language use is a powerful tool, not only in language learning, but also in wider society. It adopts an interdisciplinary stance: one chapter argues the need for Language Awareness in business contexts, while another examines the role of critical cultural awareness and Language Awareness in education as ‘bildung’. Others report on research studies in language classrooms and in teacher education. Language Awareness is interrogated from a range of perspectives such as peer interaction, teaching young learners, learner strategies and strategies for writing, online reading, and oral fluency training. The scope is global, including contributions from Canada, Germany, Iran, Japan, Spain, and the UK, and covers bilingual as well as multilingual contexts. The book will be of interest to language teachers, language teacher educators, other language professionals, and generally to the language aware. This book was originally published as a special issue of Language Awareness.

Whose Education For All?
Whose Education For All?

Author: Birgit Brock-Utne

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-06-01

Total Pages: 591

ISBN-13: 1135578281

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Since 1990, when the phrase "education for all" was first coined at the World Bank conference in Jomtien, Thailand, a battle has raged over its meaning and its impact on education in Africa. In this thought-provoking new volume, Dr. Brock-Utne argues that "education for all" really means "Western primary schooling for some, and none for others." Her incisive analysis demonstrates how this construct robs Africans of their indigenous knowledge and language, starves higher education in Africa, and thereby perpetuates Western dominion. In Dr. Brock-Utne's words, "A quadrangle building has been erected in a village of round huts."