TY  - BOOK
AU  - M. Cathrene Connery
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Profiles in Emergent Biliteracy
T2  - Children Making Meaning in a Chicano Community
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1108525
N2  - How do young children learn to read, write, speak, and listen in two languages? How do emergent readers and writers make meaning within multilingual communities? This book examines the emergent biliteracy development of two kindergarteners growing up in a New Mexican neighborhood. Using ethnographic accounts, the book portrays the familial, communal, and academic contexts in which the children appropriated dual proficiencies in English and Spanish, and provides a window into the homes and lives of these working-class boys and the political, philosophical, and pedagogical world of their bilingual kindergarten. The complexity of emergent biliteracy as a sociocultural-semiotic process is elaborated through Vygotskian theory, the multiple voices of these children, and the action research of their teacher.
KW  - emergent literacy, bilingualism, biliteracy, educational psychology, Vygotsky, bilingual education, kindergarten, Chicano, Hispanic Studies, early childhood education, Latino, cultural-historical theory
LA  - English
ER  -