Literacy, Storytelling and Bilingualism in Asian Classrooms

ISBN-13: 9781138502628 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 160 str.

Alice Sterling Honig

Opis

Research has shown that bilingual children show enhanced cognitive flexibility and an ability to better focus their attention. This book explores both emergent literacy and bilingualism in children in four Asian countries. It was originally published as a special issue of Early Child Development and Care.

Spis treści

1. Introduction to Asian language researches  2. English vocabulary instruction in six early childhood classrooms in Hong Kong  3. Implementation of the Hong Kong language policy in pre-school settings  4. Relationships between early language skills and future literacy development in Hong Kong  5. Relationships between receptive vocabulary in English and Cantonese proficiency among five-year-old Hong Kong Kindergarten children  6. Predictors of reading ability in English for Mandarin-speaking bilingual children in Singapore  7. Gender differences in the reading process of six-year-olds in Singapore  8. Teachers’ perceptions of the importance of stories in the lives of children in Myanmar  9. Learning and language: educarer–child interactions in Singapore infant-care settings  10. Taiwanese preschoolers’ emergent reading behaviours with an unfamiliar storybook

O autorze

Alice Sterling Honig is Professor Emerita in the Department of Child and Family Studies at Syracuse University, NY, USA. She is a licensed psychologist, working to help families with life problems, and has conducted volunteer workshops for divorcing parents with custody issues. She is the author or editor of over 600 articles and chapters, and over twenty books. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Orthopsychiatric Association, and the Society for Research in Child Development.