A Multilingual Development Framework For Young Learners

Author : Barbara Hofer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311110771X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Multilingual Development Framework for Young Learners written by Barbara Hofer and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new extended framework for the study of early multicompetence. It proposes a concept of multilingual competences as a valuable educational target, and a view of the multilingual learner as a competent language user. The thematic focus is on multilingual skill development in primary schoolers in the trilingual province of South Tyrol, northern Italy. A wide range of topics pertaining to multicompetence building and the special affordances of multilingual pedagogy are explored. Key concepts like language proficiency, native-speakerism, or monolingual classroom bias are subjected to critical analysis.

Author : Dina C. Castro
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1800411863
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Language, Learning, and Disability in the Education of Young Bilingual Children written by Dina C. Castro and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using an interdisciplinary perspective to discuss the intersection of language development and learning processes, this book summarizes current knowledge and represents the most critical issues regarding early childhood research, policy, and practice related to young bilingual children with disabilities. The book begins with a conceptual framework focusing on the intersection between the fields of early childhood education, bilingual education, and special education. It goes on to review and discuss the role of bilingualism in young children’s development and the experiences of young bilingual children with disabilities in early care and education settings, including issues of eligibility and access to care, instruction, and assessment. The book explores family experiences, teacher preparation, accountability, and policy, ending with recommendations for future research which will inform both policies and practices for the education of young bilingual children with disabilities. This timely volume provides valuable guidance for teachers, administrators, policymakers, and researchers.

Author : Alison L. Bailey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107042445
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children's Multilingual Development and Education written by Alison L. Bailey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the beliefs and practices of parents and educators raising future generations of multilingual children.

Author : Natalie Wexler
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735213569
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Knowledge Gap written by Natalie Wexler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The untold story of the root cause of America's education crisis--and the seemingly endless cycle of multigenerational poverty. It was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a hidden explanation for our country's frustrating lack of progress when it comes to providing every child with a quality education. The problem wasn't one of the usual scapegoats: lazy teachers, shoddy facilities, lack of accountability. It was something no one was talking about: the elementary school curriculum's intense focus on decontextualized reading comprehension "skills" at the expense of actual knowledge. In the tradition of Dale Russakoff's The Prize and Dana Goldstein's The Teacher Wars, Wexler brings together history, research, and compelling characters to pull back the curtain on this fundamental flaw in our education system--one that fellow reformers, journalists, and policymakers have long overlooked, and of which the general public, including many parents, remains unaware. But The Knowledge Gap isn't just a story of what schools have gotten so wrong--it also follows innovative educators who are in the process of shedding their deeply ingrained habits, and describes the rewards that have come along: students who are not only excited to learn but are also acquiring the knowledge and vocabulary that will enable them to succeed. If we truly want to fix our education system and unlock the potential of our neediest children, we have no choice but to pay attention.

Author : Eurydice B. Bauer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136962123
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Biliteracy Development written by Eurydice B. Bauer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A large and growing number of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds in the US and around the world have the potential to develop bilingualism and biliteracy if supported in their immediate environment. At the forefront in focusing exclusively on biliteracy development in early childhood across a variety of languages, this book provides both findings from empirical research with young bilinguals in home and school contexts and practical applications of these findings. Each chapter is structured in a similar format to offer parallel descriptions of the research, including a brief review of related empirical studies, an overview of the methods for data collection and analysis, a description of the main findings, and specific pedagogical implications to support educators’ efforts to construct meaningful, challenging, and dynamic literacy and language learning communities where one or more languages are used for communicating and learning. Pushing the field forward, this book is a valuable resource for helping literacy educators understand and respond to critical issues related to the development of young children’s literate competencies in two languages in home and school contexts.

Author : Danuta Gabryś-Barker
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031523717
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern Approaches to Researching Multilingualism written by Danuta Gabryś-Barker and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Oreste Floquet
Publisher : Sapienza Università Editrice
ISBN 13 : 8893773112
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metalinguistic Awareness: Recomposing Cognitive, Linguistic and Cultural Conflicts written by Oreste Floquet and published by Sapienza Università Editrice. This book was released on 2024-04-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is dedicated to Maria Antonietta Pinto’s research across the past five decades. The title reflects not only the dominance of metalinguistic awareness in Pinto’s work but also the pathway through which this construct has been elaborated over the years. Under the influence of two great mentors, Jean Piaget for the cognitive aspects, and Renzo Titone for the psycholinguistic aspects, Pinto created an original construct of metalinguistic awareness and instruments to measure it at different developmental stages. The volume pays tribute, among other aspects, to the heuristic value of this construct and its use in international research.

Author : Mila Schwartz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319772287
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Preschool Bilingual Education written by Mila Schwartz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an up-to-date collection of key aspects related to current preschool bilingual education research from a socio-linguistic perspective. The focus is on preschool bilingual education in multilingual Europe, which is characterized by diverse language models and children's linguistic backgrounds. The book explores the contemporary perspectives on early bilingual education in light of the threefold theoretical framework of child's, teachers', and parents' agencies in interaction in preschool bilingual education. Five significant theoretical concepts are promoted in this volume: the ecology of language learning, an educational partnership for bilingualism, a notion of agency in early language development and education, language-conducive contexts, and language-conducive strategies. The volume examines preschool bilingual education as embedded in specific socio-cultural contexts on the one hand and highlights its universal features on the other. The book is a fundamental read for scholars and students of second language teaching, preschool education, and bilingual education in multilingual and multicultural societies.

Author : Mila Schwartz
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030916626
Total Pages : 939 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Early Language Education written by Mila Schwartz and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 939 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first international and interdisciplinary handbook to offer a comprehensive and an in-depth overview of findings from contemporary research, theory, and practice in early childhood language education in various parts of the world and with different populations. The contributions by leading scholars and practitioners are structured to give a survey of the topic, highlight its importance, and provide a critical stance. The book covers preschool ages, and looks at children belonging to diverse ethno-linguistic groups and experiencing different histories and pathways of their socio-linguistic and socio-cultural development and early education. The languages under the scope of this handbook are identified by the contributors as immigrant languages, indigenous, endangered, heritage, regional, minority, majority, and marginalized, as well as foreign and second languages, all of which are discussed in relation to early language education as the key concept of the handbook. In this volume, “early language education” will refer to any kind of setting, both formal and informal (e.g. nursery, kindergarten, early childhood education centers, complementary early schooling etc.) in which language learning within a context of children's sociolinguistic diversity takes place before elementary school.

Author : Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
ISBN 13 : 1783093404
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Learning and Teaching of English written by Jelena Mihaljević Djigunović and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an insight into the dynamics and complexities of learning and teaching English as a foreign language at primary level. Taking a Dynamic Systems Theory perspective, the chapters present the findings of longitudinal research undertaken in Croatia into the development of English in young learners. The book includes both qualitative and quantitative research and provides insights into internal individual learner factors and external micro and macro contextual factors which impact English learner development. Importantly, it tackles the unique position of English in today’s globalised world in detail. It therefore makes a major contribution to work on learning English by the digitalised generation and to understanding the impact of practices in the modern EFL classroom. The volume will appeal to anyone interested in new ways of researching the complex and dynamic phenomenon of the early learning of English.