Literacy Development and Enhancement Across Orthographies and Cultures

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Aram, Dorit (Editor), Korat, Ofra (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Literacy Studies, Perspectives from Cognitive Neurosciences, Linguistics, Psychology and Education, 2
• Subjects: Education.; Sociolinguistics.; Literacy.

One key measure of a country’s status in the world is the literacy of its people; at the same time, global migration has led to increased interest in bilingualism and foreign language learning as topics of research. Literacy Development and Enhancement Across Orthographies and Cultures reviews inter...

Table of Contents:

• Literacy Development
• It’s All in the Name
• Learning About Writing Begins Informally
• The Role of Letter Name Knowledge in Early Spelling Development: Evidence from Brazilian Portuguese
• An Eye for Print: Child and Adult Attention to Print During Shared Book Reading
• The Role of Hebrew Letter Names in Early Literacy: The Case of Multi-phonemic Acrophonic Names
• Promoting Literacy at Home and in School
• The Early Childhood Project: A 5-Year Longitudinal Investigation of Children’s Literacy Development in Sociocultural Context
• Early Literacy at Home: General Environmental Factors and Specific Parent Input
• Reading Books to Young Children: What It Does and Does Not Do
• The Making of Literate Families: Considerations of Context and Misconceptions
• Spellings of Words: A Neglected Facilitator of Vocabulary Learning
• Early Schooling and Growth of Literacy in the Transition to School
• Bilingualism
• Acquiring a Second Spoken and Written Language
• Role of Orthography in Literacy Acquisition and Literacy Problems Among Monolinguals and Bilinguals
• Becoming Literate in a Foreign Language
• Rudiments of Inflectional Morphology Skills in Emergent English–Hebrew Biliterates
• Early Identification and Intervention to Prevent Reading Difficulties
• Teaching and Learning
• Whatever Happened to Pedagogical Theory?.