Heritage and School Language Literacy Development in Migrant Children: Interdependence or Independence?

Published by Multilingual Matters 2017

Heritage and School Language Literacy Development in Migrant Children

Interdependence or Independence?

Edited by: Raphael Berthele and Amelia Lambelet

In the series Second Language Acquisition

https://doi.org/10.21832/9781783099054

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This book discusses literacy development in heritage language speakers and presents the results of quantitative studies that investigate the transfer of literacy skills in bi- and multilingual language development. Theoretical assumptions are put to the test and assumptions on bilingual education are questioned based on the data and results.

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Berthele Raphael :

Raphael Berthele is Professor of Multilingualism at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He directs the MA programme in multilingualism studies and co-founded the Fribourg Institute of Multilingualism in 2008. His wide-ranging research interests include both cognitive and social aspects of multilingualism.

Lambelet Amelia :

Amelia Lambelet is Senior Researcher at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Her research interests include individual differences in foreign language learning, receptive multilingualism and heritage speakers’ language development.

Raphael Berthele is Professor of Multilingualism at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He directs the MA programme in multilingualism studies and co-founded the Fribourg Institute of Multilingualism in 2008. His wide-ranging research interests include both cognitive and social aspects of multilingualism.

Amelia Lambelet is Senior Researcher at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Her research interests include individual differences in foreign language learning, receptive multilingualism and heritage speakers’ language development.

Reviews

This volume brings together findings of studies on the interdependence of languages in migrant children with reflections on theoretical and methodological issues in such research and on educational implications concerning heritage languages. Reflections are thought-provoking and call into question established expectations regarding transfer and interdependence effects. The book provides stimulating food for thought for applied linguists and policy makers.

This volume addresses unresolved theoretical, methodological and educational issues, arising from Cummins' (1976) seminal interdependence hypothesis. In general, the findings of the carefully conducted empirical studies reported in this volume provide insufficient support for the interdependence hypothesis. The volume therefore forms obligatory reading for all researchers of multilingualism and school education.

This volume is timely and provocative because the scientific evidence on the relationship between heritage languages and second languages reported has important implications for the concept of interdependence. Readers interested in multilingualism and education will not only find rich data but also ground-breaking ideas. The book will certainly stimulate further discussion in the field.

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1. Investigating Interdependence and Literacy Development in Heritage Language Speakers: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations Raphael Berthele and Amelia Lambelet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Testing Interdependence in Portuguese Heritage Speakers in Switzerland: The HELASCOT Project Amelia Lambelet, Raphael Berthele, Magalie Desgrippes, Carlos Pestana and Jan Vanhove Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
3. On the Sociolinguistic Embedding of Portuguese Heritage Language Speakers in Switzerland: Socio-Economic Status and Home Literacy Environment (HELASCOT Project) Magalie Desgrippes and Amelia Lambelet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	34
4. Reading Comprehension Development in Portuguese Heritage Speakers in Switzerland (HELASCOT Project) Carlos Pestana, Amelia Lambelet and Jan Vanhove Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
5. The Deve lopment of Argumentative and Narrative Writing Skills in Portuguese Heritage Speakers in Switzerland (HELASCOT Project) Magalie Desgrippes, Amelia Lambelet and Jan Vanhove Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
6. Testing the Interdependence of Languages (HELASCOT Project) Jan Vanhove and Raphael Berthele Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
7. Language Skill Transfer Effects: Moving from Heritage Language to School Language in Kindergarten Urs Moser, Nicole Bayer and Martin J. Tomasik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
8. Promoting Multilingualism Through Heritage Language Courses: New Perspectives on the Transfer Effect Edina Krompàk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
9. The Development of Russian Heritage Pupils’ Writing Profi ciency in Finnish and Russian Lea Nieminen and Riikka Ullakonoja Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
10. Assessing Heritage Languages and Interdependence: Why and How? Raphael Berthele Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201