This post reviews Clare Kelly, Eve Gregory, and Ann Williams, “Home to School to Home: Syncretised Literacies in Lingustic Minority Communities” in Ofelia Garcia and Colin Baker, eds., Bilingual Education: An Introductory Reader (Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters, 2007).
This essay is one of several chapters in a comprehensive reader on bilingual education. The researchers compare and contrast the way home cultures in monolingual native British and polylingual immigrant families impart literacy to their children. (more…)