Chapter 6. Language and literacy teaching, learning and socialization in the Chinese complementary school classroom

Assessment is an essential component of an effective bilingual literacy program. The relationship between language and literacy is complex. For bilingual individuals, the complexity of that relationship is increased. When bilingualism involves a signed language, the relationship becomes even more complicated, and disentangling the critical strands of language and literacy learning can be an ongoing challenge. This chapter provides a strengths-based perspective to guide educators in their assessment considerations when developing the literacy abilities of deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) bilingual learners, defined as children who are learning a signed language and concurrently a spoken/written language, such as ASL–English. In particular, the chapter explores the valuable ways that signed language abilities contribute to literacy development. Also highlighted is the critical and ongoing need for effective and culturally responsive signed language measures to better inform literacy teaching approaches.

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Enspråkig undervisning i flerspråkig kontext

Educare - vetenskapliga skrifter ◽

10.24834/educare.2017.1.2 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 9-26

Author(s):

Berit Lundgren

Keyword(s):

Language And Literacy ◽

Literacy Teaching ◽

Grade 5 ◽

Theoretical Standpoint

The aim of this article is to explore teaching within symmetrical and asymmetrical classrooms and how teaching creates meaning for the learners in a multilingual school. The study, described in this article, has a socio-cultural theoretical standpoint with focus on language and literacy teaching. The study has been conducted in Grade 5 in a school with 50% of immigrant learners. The result shows that the discourse in the symmetrical and asymmetrical classrooms is monolingual with no translanguaging except from one classroom where teaching prepare for translanguaging and multilingual use. But the conclusion from the study is a monolingual school discourse in a multilingual context. Syftet med artikeln är att utforska undervisningen i symmetriska och asymmetriska klassrum och den tänkbara betydelsen för eleverna av undervisning i en flerspråkig skola. Studien, som lyfts fram i denna artikel, har en sociokulturell teoretisk utgångspunkt med fokus på språk- och literacyundervisning och har genomförts i årskurs 5 i en skola där mer än 50 % av eleverna har ett annat modersmål än svenska. Resultatet visar att diskurs är enspråkig i symmetriska och asymmetriska klassrum förutom ett klassrum där undervisningen visar en ansats att lyfta in elevernas flerspråkiga kompetens och uppmuntra transspråkande. Slutsatsen är dock att det på den studerade skolan råder en enspråkig diskurs i en flerspråkig kontext.

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