Publications

Publication details [#48980]

Sneddon, Raymonde. 2008. Magda and Albana: Learning to Read with Dual Language Books. Language & Education 22 (2) : 137–154.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | children's book | classroom conversation | mother-child conversation | storytelling

Language as a subject

Albanian | English

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This article describes how mothers' use of dual, Albanian-English language story books, increased their 6 year old daughters' fluency in both Abanian and English, at school and in the home setting in the U.K.