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Heritage and School Language Literacy Development in Migrant Children : Interdependence or Independence? / ed. by Raphael Berthele, Amelia Lambelet.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Second Language AcquisitionPublisher: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781783099047
  • 9781783099054
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 372.6 23
LOC classification:
  • P115.2 .H47 2018
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Investigating Interdependence and Literacy Development in Heritage Language Speakers: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations -- 2. Testing Interdependence in Portuguese Heritage Speakers in Switzerland: The HELASCOT Project -- 3. On the Sociolinguistic Embedding of Portuguese Heritage Language Speakers in Switzerland: Socio-Economic Status and Home Literacy Environment (HELASCOT Project) -- 4. Reading Comprehension Development in Portuguese Heritage Speakers in Switzerland (HELASCOT Project) -- 5. The Deve lopment of Argumentative and Narrative Writing Skills in Portuguese Heritage Speakers in Switzerland (HELASCOT Project) -- 6. Testing the Interdependence of Languages (HELASCOT Project) -- 7. Language Skill Transfer Effects: Moving from Heritage Language to School Language in Kindergarten -- 8. Promoting Multilingualism Through Heritage Language Courses: New Perspectives on the Transfer Effect -- 9. The Development of Russian Heritage Pupils' Writing Profi ciency in Finnish and Russian -- 10. Assessing Heritage Languages and Interdependence: Why and How? -- Index
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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Investigating Interdependence and Literacy Development in Heritage Language Speakers: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations -- 2. Testing Interdependence in Portuguese Heritage Speakers in Switzerland: The HELASCOT Project -- 3. On the Sociolinguistic Embedding of Portuguese Heritage Language Speakers in Switzerland: Socio-Economic Status and Home Literacy Environment (HELASCOT Project) -- 4. Reading Comprehension Development in Portuguese Heritage Speakers in Switzerland (HELASCOT Project) -- 5. The Deve lopment of Argumentative and Narrative Writing Skills in Portuguese Heritage Speakers in Switzerland (HELASCOT Project) -- 6. Testing the Interdependence of Languages (HELASCOT Project) -- 7. Language Skill Transfer Effects: Moving from Heritage Language to School Language in Kindergarten -- 8. Promoting Multilingualism Through Heritage Language Courses: New Perspectives on the Transfer Effect -- 9. The Development of Russian Heritage Pupils' Writing Profi ciency in Finnish and Russian -- 10. Assessing Heritage Languages and Interdependence: Why and How? -- Index

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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