Bilingual Children's Language and Literacy Development: New Zealand Case Studies

Seventeen teachers, administrators, researchers, and academics report case study research recently conducted in several primary school contexts, reflecting the linguistic and cultural diversity of New Zealand. Eleven contributions cover a range of topics including key language issues, the education of Maori children, Pasifika languages, experiences of linguistic minority children in English-medium mainstream classrooms, deaf bilingual learners, the social and individual importance of maintaining community languages, language-in-education planning, and future planning and development. For teachers, researchers and others interested in cross-linguistic and cross-cultural education. Distributed by UTP Distribution. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR