Continua of Biliteracy

An Ecological Framework for Educational Policy, Research, and Practice in Multilingual Settings

Edited by Prof. Nancy H. Hornberger

Publication date:

23 May 2003

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

210x148mm
6x8"

ISBN-13: 9781853596551

Biliteracy - the use of two or more languages in and around writing- is an inescapable feature of lives and schools worldwide, yet one which most educational policy and practice continue blithely to ignore. The continua of biliteracy featured in the present volume offers a comprehensive yet flexible model to guide educators, researchers, and policy-makers in designing, carrying out, and evaluating educational programs for the development of bilingual and multilingual learners, each program adapted to its own specific context, media, and contents.

Jim Cummins: Foreword
Nancy H. Hornberger: Introduction
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Part 1: Continua of Biliteracy
1 Nancy H. Hornberger: Continua of Biliteracy
2 Nancy H. Hornberger and Ellen Skilton-Sylvester: Revisiting the Continua of Biliteracy: International and Critical Perspectives
Part 2: Language Planning
3 Colin Baker: Biliteracy and Transliteracy in Wales: Language Planning and the Welsh National Curriculum
4 Carole Bloch and Neville Alexander: A Luta Continua!: The Relevance of the Continua of Biliteracy to South African Multilingual Schools
5 Mihyon Jeon: Searching for a Comprehensive Rationale for Two-way Immersion
Part 3: Learners’ Identities
6 Felicia Lincoln: Language Education Planning and Policy in Middle America: Students’ Voices
7 Carmen I. Mercado: Biliteracy Development among Latino Youth in New York City Communities: An Unexploited Potential
8 Melisa Cahnmann: To Correct or Not to Correct Bilingual Students’ Errors is a Question of Continua-ing Reimagination
Part 4: Empowering Teachers
9 Bertha Pérez, Belinda Bustos Flores, and Susan Strecker: Biliteracy Teacher Education in the US Southwest
10 Joel Hardman: Content in Rural ESL Programs: Whose Agendas for Biliteracy Are Being Served?
11 Diana Schwinge: Enabling Biliteracy: Using the Continua of Biliteracy to Analyze Curricular Adaptations and Elaborations
Part 5: Sites and Worlds
12 Holly R. Pak: When MT is L2: The Korean Church School as a Context for Cultural Identity
13 Viniti Basu: ‘Be Quick of Eye and Slow of Tongue’: An Analysis of Two Bilingual Schools in New Delhi
Part 6: Conclusion
14 Nancy H. Hornberger: Multilingual Language Policies and the Continua of Biliteracy: An Ecological Approach
Brian Street: Afterword
Index

The volume is a marvellous corrective to the relative neglect of multilingual and multi-script literacies in much literacy research. It is especially satisfying to see this important new volume ‘framed’ by an icon of multilingual research and multilingualism sensibilities, Jim Cummins, in a foreword; and an icon of literacy ethnographies, Brian Street, in an afterword.