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Direct linkKenner, Charmian; Kress, Gunther; Al-Khatib, Hayat; Kam, Roy; Tsai, Kuan-Chun – Language and Education, 2004
This paper discusses ways in which young bilingual children understand the principles underlying different writing systems. Six case studies were conducted, involving six-year-olds growing up in London who were learning to write in Chinese, Arabic or Spanish at the same time as English. The children's formal and informal literacy interactions were…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Young Children, Peer Teaching, Bilingualism
