Language and Literacy Practices of Multilingual Children Living and Learning Through a Community-Based Family Literacy Program

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Wednesday 2:30 pm Four Seasons Ballroom 1
  In Roundtable Session: Cultural Resilience and Bilingual Literacies: Supporting Multilingual Learners (Table 2)

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explore how multilingual children’s linguistical and cultural portraits continue to grow and evolve over time and space as they participate in a community-based family literacy program. Drawing from ethnographic logic-of-inquiry the overarching findings of this study present the notions of how children cross everyday boundaries to not only question, reflect, and embrace the dynamic hybridity of their translanguaging and biliteracy practices, but also their relationships with others and the childhood cultures that accompany them as they travel between home, school, and communities.

Author

• Rebecca Carpenter de Cortina, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville