Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family

This book is a guide for parents who wish to raise children with more than one language and literacy. Drawing on interdisciplinary research, as well as the experiences of parents of multilingual children, this book walks parents through the multilingual reading and writing process from infancy to adolescence. It identifies essential literacy skills at each developmental stage and proposes effective strategies that facilitate multiliteracy, in particular, heritage-language literacy development in the home environment. This book can also be used as a reference for teachers who teach in community heritage language schools and in school heritage (or foreign) language programmes.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
Published: 04/21/2011
ISBN: 9781847693693
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.70w x 0.40d

Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2011 pg. 169