Bilingual Children's Language and Literacy Development: New Zealand Case Studies
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Seventeen teachers, administrators, researchers, and academics report case study research recently conducted in several primary school contexts, reflecting the linguistic and cultural diversity of New Zealand. Eleven contributions cover a range of topics including key language issues, the education of Maori children, Pasifika languages, experiences of linguistic minority children in English-medium mainstream classrooms, deaf bilingual learners, the social and individual importance of maintaining community languages, language-in-education planning, and future planning and development. For teachers, researchers and others interested in cross-linguistic and cross-cultural education. Distributed by UTP Distribution. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Biography Roger Barnard is Chairman of the Department of General and Applied Linguistics at the University of Waikato, where he teaches postgraduate programmes in Second Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics. His current research interests focus on interaction in school and university classrooms, viewed from a sociocultural perspective. Ted Glynn is Foundation Professor of Teacher Eucation at the University of Waikato. He has a background in applied behaviour analysis, inclusive education, and bicultural and bilingual education as well as extensive experience in working to improve the literacy outcomes for Maori students in both mainstream and Maori immersion settings.
