Ethnic Minority Children Acquiring Literacy (Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] Book 4)

Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence. As children, all human beings learn to understand and speak at least one language: their mother tongue. It is a process that seems to take place without any obvious effort. Second language learning, particularly among adults, causes more difficulty. The purpose of this series is to compile a collection of high-quality monographs on language acquisition. The series serves the needs of everyone who wants to know more about the problem of language acquisition in general and/or about language acquisition in specific contexts. Acknowledgements Introduction PART 1: THEORETICAL BACKGROUND 1 Literacy instruction for ethnic minority children 1.1 Ethnic minority children and the acquisition of literacy 1.2 Arguments in monolingual and bilingual literacy education education 1.3 Educational practice 1.4 Paradigms in bilingual literacy acquisition 2 Acquisition of literacy in a first and second language 2.1 Acquisition of literacy in a first language 2.2 Comparison of first and second language literacy acquisition 2.3 Previous research in second language literacy processes 2.4 State of the art discussion on L2 literacy research 3 Rate of literacy acquisition in a bilingual context 3.1 Educational variables 3.2 Learner variables 3.3 Background variables 3.4 Towards an explanatory model of temporal differences PART 2: LITERACY ACQUISITION OF TURKISH CHILDREN IN THE NETHERLANDS 4 Outline of the present study 4.1 Educational background 4.2 Scope of the study 4.3 Selection of informants 4.4 Data base, data collection and data processing 5 Acquiring lexical abilities in Dutch as a second language 5.1 Word reading and word spelling in L2 Dutch 5.2 Acquisition of visual word representations 5.3 First language influence in the spelling of words 5.4 Conclusions and discussion 6 Acquiring discourse abilities in Dutch as a second language 6.1 Comprehension and production of written discourse in L2 Dutch 6.2 Process characteristics in reading aloud 6.3 Comprehension of coherence, anaphora and inference 6.4 Spontaneous production of written discourse 6.5 Conclusions and discussion 7 Rate of literacy acquisition in a submersion context 7.1 Literacy achievement in a Dutch submersion context 7.2 Temporal variation in L2 reading comprehension 7.3 Interdependency between L1/L2 reading skills No detailed description available for'Ethnic Minority Children Acquiring Literacy'.