Writing in a Bilingual Program: Habia Una Vez

by Carole Edelsky

Book Overview

This volume examines the writing of children enrolled in an unusual bilingual program in the Southwest that emphasized writing in the first language until literacy was well established, and which attempted to offer an integrated curriculum. As a result, the volume presents research findings on children's spelling in both Spanish and English, their written code switches, segmentation, beginnings and endings of pieces, quality of the content, the relationship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893913049
• ISBN13: 9780893913045
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"