Bilingual Development and Literacy Learning-East Asian and International Perspectives

Understanding how the Chinese writing system illustrates universal design features of writing and literacy learning, as well as how it differs from alphabetic literacy, has become one of the cutting edge areas of research in the cognitive sciences. A major part of this book is devoted to the present...

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Main Author: Francis, Norbert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : City University of Hong Kong Press, 2012.
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Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:962937501X
9789629375010
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • 1. Introduction
  • Problems of bilingualism and second language literacy in today's globalized learning spaces
  • 2. Balanced and imbalanced bilingualism
  • 3. Bilingual development in exceptional circumstances
  • 4. Bilingual literacy and comparative research on writing systems
  • 5. Self-correction
  • Negative evidence in second language literacy learning
  • 6. Corrective feedback in language learning
  • 7. The foundation of immersion education
  • Integration of language and content
  • 8. Studies of bilingualism for further study
  • 9. Research problems that still have not been solved
  • Response to The Taipei lectures