Cultivating Bilingual Students’ Reading in Math: A Survey Study of Bilingual Math Literacy

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Abstract

This survey study uncovers bilingual children’s beliefs and strategies when reading math materials. Drawing upon the sociocultural and translanguaging theories, the findings from student surveys demonstrate the math reading strategies that elementary bilingual children have. The findings suggest “productive action” for biliteracy research and will help all stakeholders reflect on bilingual math literacy and help emergent bilinguals achieve academic success.

Authors

• Yang Wang, University of South Carolina

• Jin Liu, University of Texas at Arlington

• Hengtao Tang, University of South Carolina

• Jing Zhang, University of South Carolina