This book presents research focused on young emergent bilingual children's multimodal meaning-making processes in diverse cultural and linguistic settings. Chapters draw on a range of theoretical frameworks and expand on traditional notions of literacy, especially for students who are working to learn English as a new language. The insights into original research studies will help readers understand the many avenues that one can take as a practitioner in order to ensure that student assets are built upon to promote positive literate identities and learning experiences and, ultimately, to promote literacy success for diverse learners. Each chapter includes practical pedagogical recommendations and implications for teachers that can immediately be applied to classrooms, making the book an essential resource for using multiple modes to teach literacy with diverse student populations.

Uniquely combines multimodal literacy and young emergent bilinguals

About the Author

Sally Brown is Professor of Literacy Education at Georgia Southern University, USA. Her research focuses on supporting the literacy development of emergent bilinguals using technology and culturally sustaining pedagogies in early childhood classrooms, with an emphasis on multimodal practices.

Ling Hao is a PhD candidate at the University of South Carolina, USA. Her research focuses on exploring emergent bilingual children's multimodal meaning-making process and promoting the literacy development of students with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds.

Reviews
With theoretical prowess and a close eye on practice, this collection of carefully edited research honors the vibrancy of linguistic, semiotic, and material dexterity at work among bilingual children. Offering a global perspective, it reinvigorates our desire to learn from what truly becomes and what is possible in bilingual learning spaces. * Angie Zapata, University of Missouri, USA *
This book provides a sensitive and ground breaking account of bilingual children's multimodal literacy practices bringing together the very best and most exciting work in the field. It traces a journey that immerses the reader in a vibrant and dynamic understanding of the arc of bilingual children's multimodal and multilingual productions across school and beyond. This is pedagogical work at its best - research informed, playful, inventive and powerfully concerned with social justice in literacy and language education. * Kate Pahl, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK *
This volume is a kaleidoscope of multimodal multilingual literacies from various contexts and nations. These original studies with culturally and linguistically diverse student populations help us watch our children read beyond the print text and learn from our children. It is an inspiring read for researchers, teachers, and parents. * Yang Wang, University of South Carolina, USA *



Book Information
ISBN 9781800412354
Author Sally Brown
Format Hardback
Page Count 344
Imprint Multilingual Matters
Publisher Multilingual Matters
Weight(grams) 650g
Dimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 22mm