Early Biliteracy Development: Exploring Young Learners' Use of Their Linguistic Resources

by Eurydice B. Bauer

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415880181
• ISBN13: 9780415880183
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"