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Publication details [#60551]

Melo-Pfeifer, Sílvia. 2015. Multilingual awareness and heritage language education: children's multimodal representations of their multilingualism. Language Awareness 24 (3) : 197–215.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

Analyzing drawings by children from Portuguese heritage language (PHL) classes in Germany, it is discussed how bi-/multilingual children render the link between their varied multilingual and semiotic resources, how this reveals their multilingual awareness, and how they perceive their multilingual repertoires and selves.