Charmian Kenner | December 2004, Trentham Books | 9781858563190 | 146 pages
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This book will help early years educators to understand how children learn, in parallel, to write in more than one language. Case studies of six-year-olds growing up bilingual reveal the processes involved in becoming biliterate and show how children’s learning is supported in home and community contexts. The research points to approaches to supporting literacy achievement in early years settings. The book draws on the research project called ‘Signs of Difference’, conducted by Charmian Kenner (the author) at the London Institute of Education. The research described here shows clearly that young children are flexible learners who can respond to a range of teaching styles and can understand how different writing systems operate and produce symbols in different scripts. It shows how they take the input offered by teachers, parents and siblings and transform it to create their own ideas about how writing works.
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