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Cross-Linguistic Influences on Bilingual Child Literacy: Behavioral and Neuroimaging Evidence
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Xin Sun – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Early childhood language experiences influence how a child's mind and brain process language and acquire literacy. For children growing up bilingual, their two languages interact in their minds, and these cross-linguistic influences can lead to unique neurocognitive mechanisms for language and reading compared to monolinguals. In this…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Children, Literacy, Neurology
Chasing Shadows: Why There Cannot Be a "Simple" Science of Literacy
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Yaden, David B., Jr. – Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 2023
The rhetoric of the reading wars has become more than just an armchair academic debate, but is encoded now in the very laws, house and senate bills, and legislative policies of the majority of the states. In turn, these policies are powered by staggering sums of money such as the 90-million-dollar investment of Fulton County, Georgia in a revamp…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, Early Reading, Emergent Literacy
The Promise of Comprehensive Early Reading Instruction for Children with Autism and Recommendations for Future Directions
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Arciuli, Joanne; Bailey, Benjamin – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2021
Purpose: Children with autism have an increased likelihood of reading difficulties. The reasons for this are numerous and varied, but many children with autism can learn to read when they are provided with evidence-based early reading instruction. Method: Here, we provide an overview of some of the factors that impact early reading development for…
Descriptors: Early Reading, Beginning Reading, Emergent Literacy, Reading Instruction
I1 Bilinguismo nella Scuola Dell'Infanzia: Motivazioni Psico-linguistiche e Glottodidattiche. Appunti su Alcuni Presupposti. (Bilingualism in the Preschool: Psycholinguistic and Glottodidactic Reasons. Notes on Some Assumptions).
Titone, Renzo – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1982
Discusses the results of recent research concerning the effects of bilingualism on the development of preschool children and explains how early bilingual education greatly enriches a child's personality cognitively, linguistically, affectively, socially, and morally. Claims it is possible and beneficial to offer young children the opportunity to…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Early Reading, Language Research
Early Bilingual Reading.
Titone, Renzo – Prospects, 1985
This discussion reviews literature on early bilingualism and early reading in two languages and summarizes a research project aimed at developing the experimental conditions for teaching early bilingual reading in institutional settings. The review notes positive effects of early reading generally and of early bilingual literacy on intellectual…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Classroom Techniques, Cognitive Development
The Bilingual Child's "Right to Read"
Andersson, Theodore – Journal of the National Association for Bilingual Education, 1976
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Early Childhood Education, Early Reading
Parents, Wake Up! Why Deprive Your Child of a Superior Education?
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Anderson, Theodore – Hispania, 1980
Parents are urged to provide a superior education for their preschool children by encouraging the development of the first language in the home and by teaching the young child to read in at least one of his languages before going to school. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Early Reading, Educational Responsibility
The Preschool/Early Reading Movement (ERM) in Italy: An Historical Survey.
Titone, Renzo – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1989
Traces the history of the early reading movement in Italy and relates the experiences of parent-guided reading with preschool children and teacher-guided reading with kindergarten children. Recent studies on early reading and research in the area of early bilingual reading is discussed. (CFM)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Early Reading, Foreign Countries
Early Bilingual Reading.
Titone, Renzo – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Education, 1985
Research shows that there are many possible positive effects of early bilingual reading upon intellectual growth and general education. An Italian research project dealing with early bilingual literacy is described; the teaching methods used in the project are examined. (RM)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingualism, Case Studies, Child Development