Multilingual Literacies : Reading and Writing Different Worlds

by Martin-Jones, Marilyn; Jones, Kathryn E.

• ISBN13: 9789027218056
• ISBN10: 9027218056
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Foreword
Introduction: Multilingual literacies	p. 1
Literacy events and literacy practices: theory and practice in the New Literacy Studies	p. 17
Children's Worlds of Literacy: Home, School and Community	p. 31
Work or play? 'Unofficial' literacies in the lives of two East London communities	p. 37
Power relations and the social construction of 'literacy' and 'illiteracy': the experience of Bangladeshi women in Birmingham	p. 55
Learning to read and write at home: the experience of Chinese families in Britain	p. 71
Language, literacy and world view	p. 91
Language and literacy practices in Gujarati Muslim families	p. 103
Children writing in a multilingual nursery	p. 127
Texts, Identities and Adult Worlds	p. 145
Enterprising women: multilingual literacies in the construction of new identities	p. 149
Writing switching in British Creole	p. 171
Mediators and mediation in multilingual literacy events	p. 189
Texts, mediation and social relations in a bureaucratised world	p. 209
Creating Spaces for Multilingual Literacies in Local Community Contexts	p. 229
Languages and literacies for autonomy	p. 233
Gender, literacy and community publishing in a multilingual context	p. 247
Researching Languages and Literacies in their Social Contexts	p. 273
Taking account of history and culture in community-based research on multilingual literacy	p. 275
Photography in collaborative research on multilingual literacy practices: images and understandings of researcher and researched	p. 299
Constructing a critical, dialogic approach to research on multilingual literacy: participant diaries and diary interviews	p. 319
Afterword: Multilingual literacies, literacy practices, and the continua of biliteracy	p. 353
Bibliography	p. 369
Index	p. 389
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