Young Emergent Bilinguals as Meaning Makers

By Sally Brown

Young Emergent Bilinguals as Meaning Makers takes readers on a journey of the multimodal literacy experiences of over 125 young children learning English as a new language in U.S. public school classrooms. The book is filled with a plethora of student work samples, transcripts, and artwork produced with the author/researcher as par

• Language: English
• Publisher: DIO Press Inc
• Release date: Jun 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9781645042655

Sally Brown

Sally Brown is a Professor of Literacy Education at Georgia Southern University where she teaches pre-service and in-service teachers. Her research focuses on supporting emergent bilingual children as they navigate learning English in classrooms while maintaining the first language. Sally is interested in the ways that digital tools can support a multimodal approach to literacy learning where emergent bilinguals draw from their vast resources in order to construct meaning. She is the co-editor of Multimodal Literacies in Young Emergent Bilinguals: Beyond Print-Centric Practices (2022).

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