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Learning to Read in a New Language - Making Sense of Words and Worlds (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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Learning to Read in a New Language - Making Sense of Words and Worlds (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
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'[This book] is a helpful edition to a field where there is a
limited amount of good literature to support teachers dealing with
second language acquisition in the classroom' - ESCalate `Gregory's
book is an important and timely contribution to the literature on
literacy, biliteracy, second language learning and early childhood
education, synthesizing cutting-edge research, perspectives and
teaching approaches in a clear and accessible way. Overall, it is a
terrific resource' - Dinah Volk Across the world, an increasing
number of young children are learning to read in languages
different from their mother tongue, and there is a clear need for a
book which addresses the ways in which these children should be
taught. Eve Gregory's book is unique in doing so. Building upon the
ideas proposed in Making Sense of a New World, this second edition
widens its scope, arguing for the limitations of policies designed
for 'monolingual minds' in favour of methodologies which put
plurilingualism at the centre of literacy tuition. This book offers
a practical reading programme -- an 'Inside-Out' (starting from
experience) and 'Outside-In' (starting from literature) approach to
teaching which can be used with individuals, small groups and whole
classes. It uses current sociocultural theory, while drawing on
examples of children from America, Australia, Britain, China,
France, Singapore, South Africa and Thailand who are engaged in
learning to read nursery rhymes and songs, storybooks, letters, the
Bible and the Qur'an as well as school texts, in languages they do
not speak fluently. Gregory argues that, in order for literacy
tuition to be successful, reading must make sense -- children must
feel part of a community of readers. There is no common method
which they use to learn, but rather a shared aim to which they
aspire: making sense of a new world through new words. Eve Gregory
is Professor of Language and Culture in Education at Goldsmiths,
University of London.
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