Research Catalog

Title

Literacy development in a multilingual context : cross-cultural perspectives / edited by Aydin Yücesan Durgunoğlu, Ludo Verhoeven.

Publication

Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Durgunoğlu, Aydin Yücesan.
• Verhoeven, Ludo Th.

Description

xviii, 308 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Literacy > Cross-cultural studies
• Multilingualism > Cross-cultural studies
• Education, Bilingual > Cross-cultural studies
• Second language acquisition > Cross-cultural studies
• Education, Bilingual
• Literacy
• Multilingualism
• Second language acquisition
• Alfabetisme
• Meertaligheid
• Interculturele vergelijking
• Langue seconde > Acquisition
• Multilinguisme
• Enseignement bilingue

Genre/Form

Cross-cultural studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Introduction: perspectives on literacy development in multilingual contexts / Ludo Verhoeven and Aydin Yücesan Durgunoğlu -- pt. 1. Anthropological perspective: the individual and society. Minority L1 literacy in Sweden and Karelia: challenges and strategies / Stefan M. Pugh ; Literacy in developing societies: native language versus national language literacy / Victoria J. Baker ; Literacies in the lives of young Gujarati speakers in Leicester / Marilyn Martin-Jones and Arvind Bhatt ; Literacy and bilingualism in a Cambodian community in the USA / Joel Hardman -- pt. 2. Psychological perspective: the development of the individual. Component processes in becoming English-Hebrew biliterate / Esther Geva and Lesly Wade-Woolley ; Attaining functional biliteracy in the Netherlands / Ludo Verhoeven and Rian Aarts ; Acquiring literacy in English and Spanish in the United States / Aydin Yücesan Durgunoğlu ; Literacy training for linguistic minorities in Norway / Anne Hvenekilde -- pt. 3. Educational perspective: the individual and schooling. Putting second language first: language and literacy learning in Morocco / Daniel A. Wagner ; Acquisition of literacy in multilingual contexts in Danish schools / J. Normann Jørgensen and Bergthóra S. Kristjánsdóttir ; The acquisition of literacy by immigrant children in Sweden / Sally Boyd and Gunnel Arvidsson ; Learning to read in Chinese, Korean, and Japanese / Insup Taylor ; Sabaq: context of learning literacy for girls in rural Pakistan / Iffat Farah ; Early writing acquisition in Catalan and Israeli communities / Liliana Tolchinsky -- Epilogue: multilingualism and literacy development across different cultures / Aydin Yücesan Durgunoğlu and Ludo Verhoeven.

ISBN

• 0805824421
• 9780805824421
• 080582443X
• 9780805824438

LCCN

97043202

OCLC

• ocm37863993
• 37863993
• SCSB-8908340

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library