This book explores pedagogical implications for how children read, write, respond to literature, and begin to learn an additional language in the home context. Using a longitudinal ethnographic study, it explores a bilingual child's literacy development over a span of four years from kindergarten to the third grade in a real-life home context in…

While traditional views of literacy assume that discourse is either written or oral, an alternative perspective considers different discourse samples as part of the linguistic repertoire of the speech community. Placing this perspective in a sociolinguistic context and taking language use rather than form as the starting point for analysis, it is…

The academic literature on issues related to the Philippine English language and literature is substantial. This bibliography surveys relevant work on such related fields as the sociology of language and language planning, Bilingualism, bilingual education, and languages in education, language attitudes, code-switching and code-mixing, Philippine…