Heritage and school language literacy development in migrant children : interdependence or independence? / edited by Raphael Berthele and Amelia Lambelet.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Berthele, Raphael, editor.
• Lambelet, Amelia, editor.

Series:

• Second language acquisition (Clevedon, England) ; 119.
• Second language acquisition ; 119

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Multilingualism in children.
• Interlanguage (Language learning).
• Code switching (Linguistics).
• Education, Bilingual.
• Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

ix, 202 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK ; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Multilingual Matters, [2018]

Summary:

This book discusses literacy development in heritage language speakers and presents the results of four different quantitative studies that investigate the transfer of literacy skills in bi- and multilingual language development. The empirical studies focus on different populations of pupils, most of them located in various parts of Switzerland, and emphasise the potential residing in shared or transferred resources between their heritage languages and the languages spoken in the region to which their family has immigrated. The goal of all studies was to gain an understanding of the factors, both linguistic and non-linguistic in nature, that contribute to the development of language skills in both the heritage and school languages. Theoretical assumptions are put to the test via hypothesis testing and the generally shared assumptions on bilingual education are questioned based on the data. Furthermore, methodological problems in the investigation of linguistic interdependence are discussed. This book contributes to the scholarly investigation of potential beneficial effects in academic proficiency across languages in migrant children. Book jacket.

Contents:

• 1 Investigating Interdependence and Literacy Development in Heritage Language Speakers: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations / Raphael Berthele Berthele, Raphael, Amelia Lambelet Lambelet, Amelia 1
• 2 Testing Interdependence in Portuguese Heritage Speakers in Switzerland: The HELASCOT Project / Amelia Lambelet Lambelet, Amelia, Raphael Berthele Berthele, Raphael, Magalie Desgrippes Desgrippes, Magalie, Carlos Pestana Pestana, Carlos, Jan Vanhove Vanhove, Jan 26
• 3 On the Sociolinguistic Embedding of Portuguese Heritage Language Speakers in Switzerland: Socio-Economic Status and Home Literacy Environment (HELASCOT Project) / Magalie Desgrippes Desgrippes, Magalie, Amelia Lambelet Lambelet, Amelia 34
• 4 Reading Comprehension Development in Portuguese Heritage Speakers in Switzerland (HELASCOT Project) / Carlos Pestana Pestana, Carlos, Amelia Lambelet Lambelet, Amelia, Jan Vanhove Vanhove, Jan 58
• 5 The Development of Argumentative and Narrative Writing Skills in Portuguese Heritage Speakers in Switzerland (HELASCOT Project) / Magalie Desgrippes Desgrippes, Magalie, Amelia Lambelet Lambelet, Amelia, Jan Vanhove Vanhove, Jan 83
• 6 Testing the Interdependence of Languages (HELASCOT Project) / Jan Vanhove Vanhove, Jan, Raphael Berthele Berthele, Raphael 97
• 7 Language Skill Transfer Effects: Moving from Heritage Language to School Language in Kindergarten / Urs Moser Moser, Urs, Nicole Bayer Bayer, Nicole, Martin J. Tomasik Tomasik, Martin J. 119
• 8 Promoting Multilingualism Through Heritage Language Courses: New Perspectives on the Transfer Effect / Edina Krompàk Krompàk, Edina 141
• 9 The Development of Russian Heritage Pupils' Writing Proficiency in Finnish and Russian / Lea Nieminen Nieminen, Lea, Riikka Ullakonoja Ullakonoja, Riikka 161
• 10 Assessing Heritage Languages and Interdependence: Why and How? / Raphael Berthele Berthele, Raphael 188.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

• 9781783099047
• 1783099046
• 9781783099030
• 1783099038

OCLC:

994637731