Multilingual Literacy

Esther Odilia Breuer is Head of the Centre for Writing Competency at the University of Cologne, Germany. Eva Lindgren is Professor of Language Teaching and Learning at Umeå University, Sweden. Anat Stavans is Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics in the English Language and Literature Department at Beit Berl College, Kfar Saba, Israel. Elke Van Steendam is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Arts Department of KULeuven, Belgium.

Contributors





Esther Odilia Breuer and Elke Van Steendam: Multiple Approaches to Understanding and Working with Multilingual (Multi-)Literacy


Part 1: Issues, Methods and Insights into Multilingual Literacy





Tiane Donahue: Linguistic and Social Diversity, Literacy and Access to Higher Education
Monika Angela Budde and Franziska Prüsmann: Studying the Learning of Immigrant Students with Limited German: A Proposal for Developing and Applying an Instrument for Selecting Suitable Research Participants
Annika Norlund Shaswar: “I Should Really Interpret Word by Word for You”: Researcher, Interpreter and Interviewee Negotiating Roles, Responsibilities, and Meanings in Two Multilingual Literacy Research Interviews


Part 2: Formal Education Framework: Multilingual Literacy in Classroom Practices





Ulrike Jessner, Emese Malzer-Papp, Elisabeth Allgäuer-Hackl: Paving a New Way to Literacy Development in Multilingual Children: A DMM Perspective
Malgorzata Machowska-Kosciak: “He Just Does Not Write Enough For It”- Literacy Practices Among Polish Adolescents in Ireland
Åsa Wedin: Construction of Identities in Diverse Classrooms: Writing Identity Texts in Grade Five


Part 3: Formal Education Framework: Technology-Driven Multilingual Literacy in School





Sílvia Melo-Pfeifer: Developing Multiliteracies in Online Multilingual Interactions: The Example of Chat-Room Conversations in Romance Languages
Claudine Kirsch: Promoting Multilingualism and Multiliteracies through Storytelling: A Case Study on the Use of the App iTEO in Preschools in Luxembourg


Part 4: Non-Formal Education: Multilingual Literacy at Home, in the Community and in Cyberspace





Deborah Bergman Deitcher, Helen Johnson, Dorit Aram: Multilingual Preschoolers’ Word Learning from Parent-Child Shared Reading of Informational and Narrative Books
Anat Stavans, Maya Tahar Eden and Lior Azar: Multilingual Literacy: The Use of Emojis in Written Communication
Anat Stavans and Eva Lindgren: Building the Multilingual Literacy Bridge


Index