Literacy and the bilingual learner : texts and practises in London schools / Catherine Wallace, Institute of Education, University of London, UK.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wallace, Catherine, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multicultural education--England.

Multicultural education.

Education, Bilingual--England.

Education, Bilingual.

Literacy--England.

Literacy.

Education and state--England.

Education and state.

England.

Physical Description:

x, 256 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

Literacy and the Bilingual Learner focuses on bilingual learners in London (UK) schools and colleges and aims to bring this marginalized group into sharper relief so as to allow their distinctive skills and resources to be acknowledged and to ensure greater access to quality education. While the interest is in literacy more widely, this book will look specifically at the teaching of reading. How do bilingual learners develop identities as readers and how are they supported in the journey to forms of literacy which serve their social needs and academic aspirations in the twenty-first century? The book takes both a sociocultural and sociolinguistic approach to literacy, to include a strong emphasis on critical literacy. An over-riding theme of the book, defined and developed across chapters which address different learning contexts, is the role of critical literacy as key in allowing second language learners to engage with the key debates of our age. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: setting the scence

Texts and practices: sociolinguistic and political perspectives

Literacy instruction and the bilingual learner

Bilingual learners in a multilingual primary school: literacy narratives about texts and practices

New arrivals in a multilingual secondary school: literacy narratives about texts and practices

New arrivals in the classroom: literacy and the curriculum

Adult bilingual learners: the foregrounding of critical literacy in the classroom

Pulling the threads together.

ISBN:

9780230291003

0230291007

OCLC:

869211274