Being and Becoming: Multilingual Writers' Practices

Autor/inn/en	Laman, Tasha Tropp; Van Sluys, Katie
Titel	Being and Becoming: Multilingual Writers' Practices
Quelle	In: Language Arts, 85 (2008) 4, S.265-274 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0360-9170
Schlagwörter	Multilingualism; Second Language Learning; Monolingualism; Classrooms; English (Second Language); Writing (Composition); Elementary Education; Educational Practices; Public Schools; Student Attitudes; Literacy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Classroom; Klassenraum; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Schreibübung; Elementarunterricht; Bildungspraxis; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Schülerverhalten; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit
Abstract	Most new English language learners spend their school days in monolingual teachers' classrooms. This study examines the writing practices taken on and negotiated by multilingual class members within two multiage elementary classrooms. This article details the writing practices enacted and constructed in the daily writing lives of elementary writing communities and how multilingual students extended and transformed their learning community's existing literacy practices. Situating multilingual students as valued classroom community members opens up possibilities for students to engage with their new communities, draw upon their linguistic resources, and craft possible futures as multilingual people. (Contains 7 figures.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10