Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family

This book walks parents through the multilingual reading and writing process from infancy to adolescence. It identifies essential skills at each developmental stage and proposes effective strategies that facilitate multiliteracy, in particular, heritage-language literacy development in the home environment.

About the author

Xiao-lei Wang is Professor and Acting Dean of the School of Education at Pace University, USA. She is the author of Growing up with Three Languages: Birth to Eleven (Multilingual Matters, 2008) and Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family (Multilingual Matters, 2011). She is a regular speaker on child development and parenting at local, national and international parents' associations and academic conferences.

Summary

This book walks parents through the multilingual reading and writing process from infancy to adolescence. It identifies essential skills at each developmental stage and proposes effective strategies that facilitate multiliteracy, in particular, heritage-language literacy development in the home environment.

Product details

• Authors: Xiao-lei Wang, Xiao-Lei (Pace University) Wang
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781847693693
• ISBN: 978-1-84769-369-3
• No. of pages: 190
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 225 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 312 g
• Series: Parents' and Teachers' Guides; Parents' and Teachers' Guides
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures