Globally Literate: Researching Children's Multilingualism

• In Event: 72.064 - Roundtable Session 29
  In Roundtable Session: 72.064-11 - Language and Literacy Research Issues

Abstract

Based on research in an international context, this paper addresses continuity and change in the teaching of English literacy to learners from diverse backgrounds. Using data from a single research projects, the paper focuses more specifically on issues of multilingualism, literacy and the changing context of students, schools, and systems. The paper will frame this change to the literacy education community by looking at the contemporary international literature on: migration, second and third generation learners in schools, globalisation and transnationalism and connect this to English teaching and testing world-wide. This framing will use of data collected with young multilingual speakers using the child as co-researcher model and analysed using a framework developed by Blommaert (2010)and, Hornberger and Link (2012).

Author

• Robyn Cox, Australian Catholic University