Literacy Development and Enhancement Across Orthographies and Cultures

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Aram, Dorit. (Editor), Korat, Ofra. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Literacy Studies, Perspectives from Cognitive Neurosciences, Linguistics, Psychology and Education, 2
• Subjects: Education.; Sociolinguistics.; Literacy.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0834-6

One key measure of a countrys status in the world is the literacy of its people; at the same time, global migration has led to increased interest in bilingualism and foreign language learning as topics of research. Literacy Development and Enhancement Across Orthographies and Cultures reviews inter...

Table of Contents:

• Early Literacy Development
• It's All in the Name
• The Role of Letter Name Knowledge in Early Spelling Development
• Learning about Writing Begins Informally
• Spellings of Words: A Neglected Facilitator of Vocabulary Learning
• Promoting Literacy at Home and in School
• Early Literacy at Home: Genearl Environmental Factors and Specific Paretns' Input
• An Eye for Print: Child and Adult Attention to Print during Shared Book Reading
• Reading Books to Young Children: What It Does and Doesn't Do
• The Early Childhood Project: 5 Year Longitudinal Investigation of Children's Literacy Development in Sociocultural Context
• The Making of Literate Families: Considerations of Context, Misconceptions, and Time
• Bilingualism
• Role of Orthography in Literacy Acquisition and Literacy Problems Among Monolinguals and Bilinguals
• Rudiemtns of Inflectional Morphological Skills in Emergent English-Hebrew Biliterates
• Early Identification and Intervention to Prevent Reading Difficulties
• Becoming Literate in a Foreign Language
• Teaching
• Whatever Happened to Pedagogical Theory?.