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ERIC Number: ED586800
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Apr-9
Pages: 17
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-
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Simultaneous Bilingual Children Breaking the Code in Two Languages: Transitioning from Presyllabic to Alphabetic Writing
Soltero-Gonzalez, Lucinda A.; Butvilofsky, Sandra Adriana
AERA Online Paper Repository, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (Washington, DC, Apr 8-12, 2016)
This longitudinal qualitative study examined the progression in the levels of writing conceptualizations in Spanish and English of 20 simultaneous bilingual children from PreK-K. Using a constructivist framework and a holistic bilingual perspective, we examined children's understandings about writing in their two languages as demonstrated in their written texts and the read-aloud of their own texts as well as how such understandings develop from preschool to kindergarten. Findings show that children started to establish sound-symbol relationships by representing the initial sound of words rather than through the use of a syllabic hypothesis. More importantly, findings reveal that the writing conceptualizations of simultaneous bilingual children develop similarly across languages despite no formal literacy instruction in English.
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Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Preschool Education
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Language: English
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