Publications

Publication details [#48842]

Goldenberg, Claude, Leslie Reese and Sylvia Linan Thompson. 2008. Variability in Community Characteristics and Spanish-Speaking Children's Home Language and Literacy Opportunities. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 29 (4) : 271–290.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

familiarity | immigrant | literacy | school | speech community

Language as a subject

English, American | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This analysis demonstrates that low-income Texan and Californian Latino communities' features only modestly forecast a few facets of children's language and literacy experiences. School-related literacy appears to be the most usual and frequent literacy activity type in the home across communities.