Trilingual Education of Uyghur Children - Phonological Awareness, Language Acquisition and Literacy Development

Given the differences in the orthographic structure of the Uyghur, Chinese, and English languages, this study used a mixed-method approach to systematically describe and analyze the phonological awareness of Uyghur bilingual children as English learners and its contributions to their trilingual literacy acquisition and development.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Literature review 3. The phonological awareness development of Uyghur bilingual children as English learners 4. Differing components of phonological awareness in predicting Uyghur bilingual children’s literacy development 5. Effects of cross-language literacy experience on Uyghur children’s phonological awareness development and literacy development 6. The effect of phonological awareness training on Uyghur children’s phonological awareness development and literacy development 7. Conclusions

About the author

Wei Xiaobao is Professor at the East China University of Science and Technology. Currently, he is Director of Institute of Foreign Languages, Director of Cognitive Neurolinguistics Laboratory and a research expert of Philosophy and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education. His research interests include children's literacy development, bilingual education and second language acquisition.

Summary

Given the differences in the orthographic structure of the Uyghur, Chinese, and English languages, this study used a mixed-method approach to systematically describe and analyze the phonological awareness of Uyghur bilingual children as English learners and its contributions to their trilingual literacy acquisition and development.

Product details

• Authors: Wei Xiaobao
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.04.2024
• EAN: 9781032752242
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3275224-2
• No. of pages: 226
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / English as a Second Language, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Turkish & Turkic Languages, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Chinese, Chinese, Language acquisition, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Bilingualism and multilingualism, ELT: teaching theory & methods, Turkic languages