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Literacy development in a multilingual context : cross-cultural perspectives

Author: Aydin Yücesan Durgunoğlu; Ludo Th Verhoeven
Publisher: Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Études transculturelles
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Aydin Yücesan Durgunoğlu; Ludo Th Verhoeven
ISBN: 0805824421 9780805824421 080582443X 9780805824438
OCLC Number: 37863993
Description: xviii, 308 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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.
Responsibility: edited by Aydin Yücesan Durgunoğlu, Ludo Verhoeven.
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