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Publication details [#58042]

Laursen, Helle Pia. 2013. Umbrellas and angels standing straight – a social semiotic perspective on multilingual children's literacy. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 16 (6) : 690–706.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual education | interpretation | literacy | meaning, production of | social semiotics

Language as a subject

Danish

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

Drawing on the research project Signs of Language, this paper explores how a social semiotic literacy approach may add new dimensions to studies in bilingual students' literacy acquisition in Denmark, focusing on childrens' meaning-making.