Publications

Publication details [#39772]

Kenner, Charmian, Gunther Kress, Hayat Al-Khatib, Roy Kam and Kuan-Chun Tsai. 2004. Finding the Keys to Biliteracy: How Young Children Interpret Different Writing Systems. Language & Education 18 (2) : 124–144.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | child | literacy | writing

Language as a subject

Arabic | Chinese | English | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This article discusses how young bilingual children, growing up in London and learning to write in Chinese, Arabic or Spanish at the same time as English, comprehend the principles underlying the different writing systems.