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Young Bilingual Children Learning to Read with Dual Language Books
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Sneddon, Raymonde – English Teaching: Practice and Critique, 2008
This study explores the way in which bilingual children of primary school age who have become dominant in English are learning to be literate in the language of the home using dual language books provided by the school. It reports on how the mothers and their children used both texts to transfer skills from one language to another; to negotiate…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, English (Second Language), Bilingualism, Bilingual Students
Insights into the Strategic Ways in Which Two Bilingual Children in the Early Years Seek to Negotiate the Competing Demands on Their Identity in Their Home and School Worlds
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Rich, Sarah; Davis, Loraine – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2007
This paper reports on the results of a small-scale study into the ways in which two bilingual boys attempt to manage the discontinuities between their identities at home and as members of an early years class at a mainly white primary school in the UK. To do this, a number of semi-structured interviews were undertaken with the boys and their…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Males, Bilingualism, Student Attitudes