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Bilingual Literacy Development at Home: A Longitudinal Ethnographic Exploration of Bilingual Reading and Writing

By (author) Yang Wang

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This book explores pedagogical implications for how children read, write, respond to literature, and begin to learn an additional language in the home context. Using a longitudinal ethnographic study, it explores a bilingual childâ€™s literacy development over a span of four years from kindergarten to the third grade in a real-life home context in the United States. Written from a parent-researcherâ€™s perspective, it illustrates the childâ€™s Mandarin Chinese and English language support at home and in the community during the pandemic, and charts the development in bilingual reading and writing, multimodal reading responses to childrenâ€™s literature, and learning Spanish as a third language. Through rich and detailed descriptions, the case study methodology allows a clear articulation of the projectâ€™s focus and foregrounds the exploration of reading as a sociopsycholinguistic process, as well as highlighting multimodality in reading and writing responses, translanguaging, and bilingual and bicultural identities to study and teach culturally and linguistically diverse children. It will be a valuable resource for literacy researchers, scholars, and bilingual educators with interests in sociolinguistics, literacy education, bilingualism, and translanguaging.