Writing Strategies of Children in a Macedonian-English Bilingual Program in Victoria

Autor/inn/en	de Courcy, Michele; Smilevska, Jovanka
Titel	Writing Strategies of Children in a Macedonian-English Bilingual Program in Victoria
Quelle	In: Babel, 47 (2012) 2, S.15-23 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0005-3503
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Writing Strategies; Children; Bilingual Education; Slavic Languages; English; Second Language Instruction; Native Language Instruction; Bilingual Students; Transfer of Training; Protocol Analysis; Writing Processes; Primary Education; Coding; Semi Structured Interviews; Data Analysis; Language Attitudes; Literacy Education; Language Tests; National Competency Tests; Case Studies; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Schreibtechnik; Child; Kind; Kinder; Bilingual teaching; Bilingualer Unterricht; Slawische Sprache; English language; Englisch; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Native language education; Muttersprachlicher Unterricht; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Primarbereich; Codierung; Programmierung; Auswertung; Sprachverhalten; Language test; Sprachtest; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Australien
Abstract	Research holds that, for bilingual children, a strong establishment in one language not only develops skills in that language, but also facilitates the development of a second language. The participants for this research were six nine-year-old children who were being educated in their first language, Macedonian, and also in English. This research investigated the strategies that these Macedonian-English bilingual children use for writing in Macedonian script and whether these strategies have a positive or negative transfer to English literacy. Think-aloud protocols were used to look into the writing process and to categorise the types of writing strategies that the children used in Macedonian and English. The official results from the literacy assessment conducted at the school were also examined. Results of the study indicated that there is an interdependent ability between the first language and the second language in writing and that there is a positive transfer of skills, strategies and knowledge from Macedonian to English. Therefore the conclusion is that, for this study at least, literacy development of the stronger language (Macedonian) facilitates literacy development in the second language (English) and that access to two languages from an early age and the possibility of learning those languages can facilitate literacy development. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Australian Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations. Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia. Tel: +61-29351-2022; e-mail: president@afmlta.asn.au; e-mail: editor@afmlta.asn.au; Web site: http://www.afmlta.asn.au
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01