(Re)Defining Success in Language Learning: Positioning, Participation and Young Emergent Bilinguals at School - Paperback

by Katie A. Bernstein (Author)

This book follows four emergent bilingual students in an English-medium pre-kindergarten in the US and examines how students' differing social positions in the classroom shaped their participation in interaction and, thus, their English language learning across a school year.

Author Biography

Katie A. Bernstein is Assistant Professor of Early Childhood and English Language Learner Education, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University, USA. Her research focuses on the language and literacy learning of multilingual children and the contexts in which their learning takes place.