Multilingual Literacies : Reading and Writing Different Worlds

by Martin-Jones, Marilyn; Jones, Kathryn

• ISBN13: 9781556197482
• ISBN10: 1556197489
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Contributors	xi
List of Figures	xvii
List of Tables	xxi
Foreword	xxiii
David Barton
Introduction Multilingual literacies	1	(16)
Marilyn Martin-Jones
Kathryn Jones
Literacy events and literacy practices: theory and practice in the New Literacy Studies	17	(14)
Brian Street
SECTION I: CHILDREN'S WORLDS OF LITERACY: HOME, SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY	31	(114)
Work or play? `Unofficial' literacies in the lives of two East London communities	37	(18)
Eve Gregory
Ann Williams
Power relations and the social construction of `literacy' and `illiteracy': the experience of Bangladeshi women in Birmingham	55	(16)
Adrian Blackledge
Learning to read and write at home: the experience of Chinese families in Britain	71	(20)
An Ran
Language, literacy and world view	91	(12)
Viv Edwards
Hubisi Nwenmely
Language and literacy practices in Gujarati Muslim families	103	(24)
Raymonde Sneddon
Children writing in a multilingual nursery	127	(18)
Charmian Kenner
SECTION II: TEXTS, IDENTITIES AND ADULT WORLDS	145	(84)
Enterprising women: multilingual literacies in the construction of new identities	149	(22)
Marilyn Martin-Jones
Writing switching in British Creole	171	(18)
Mark Sebba
Mediators and mediation in multilingual literacy events	189	(20)
Mike Baynham
Helen Lobanga Masing
Texts, mediation and social relations in a bureaucratised world	209	(20)
Kathryn Jones
SECTION III: CREATING SPACES FOR MULTILINGUAL LITERACIES IN LOCAL COMMUNITY CONTEXTS	229	(44)
Languages and literacies for autonomy	233	(14)
Ahmed Gurnah
Gender, literacy and community publishing in a multilingual context	247	(26)
Yasmin Alam
SECTION IV: RESEARCHING LANGUAGES AND LITERACIES IN THEIR SOCIAL CONTEXTS	273	(80)
Taking account of history and culture in community-based research on multilingual literacy	275	(24)
Mukul Saxena
Photography in collaborative research on multilingual literacy practices: images and understandings of researcher and researched	299	(20)
Rachel Hodge
Kathryn Jones
Constructing a critical, dialogic approach to research on multilingual literacy: participant diaries and diary interviews	319	(34)
Kathryn Jones
Marilyn Martin-Jones
Arvind Bhatt
Afterword Multilingual literacies, literacy practices, and the continua of biliteracy	353	(16)
Nancy Hornberger
Bibliography	369	(20)
Index	389