exploring young learners' use of their linguistic resources /
edited by Eurydice Bouchereau Bauer and Mileidis Gort.
x, 203 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Holistic approaches to bilingual/biliteracy development, instruction, and research -- Part 1. Emergence of biliteracy: the preschool years. Supporting the early development of biliteracy: the role of parents and caregivers -- Literacy practices and language use among Latino emergent bilingual children in preschool contexts -- Learning how to write in English and Chinese: young bilingaul kindergarten and first grade children explore the similarities and differences between writing systems -- Part 2. Biliteracy development in early elementary school. Evaluation and revision processes of young bilinguals in a dual language program -- Zehra's story: becoming biliterate in Turkish and English -- Traveling the biliteracy highway: framing biliteracy from students' writing -- The evolution of biliterate writing development through simultaneous bilingual literacy instruction -- Part 3. Reflections and future directions. Reflections and direction for biliteracy research.
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Education, Bilingual-- United States.
English language-- Study and teaching (Elementary)-- United States.
Multilingualism.
Spanish language-- Study and teaching (Elementary)-- United States.