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Kassahun Weldemariam – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2025
Numerous studies indicate that the language and literacy development of young children is highly contingent upon the construction of an enriching home literacy environment. Using sociocultural theory as a framework, in this article I explore how a bilingual child's language and literacy acquisition is embedded as a social practice within the home…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Literacy, Bilingualism
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Annette Woods – Qualitative Research Journal, 2025
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief review of foundational research that has informed how the field of literacy education understands the importance of child-adult interactions for learning language and early literacy, and the importance of this learning for learning literacy later in life. Design/methodology/approach: The…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Emergent Literacy, Parent Child Relationship, Language Acquisition
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Syed Abdul Manan; Anas Hajar – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
Most recent research on language learning and identity emphasizes on investing learners' capital as affordance to affirm their identities (Darvin & Norton, 2015; Norton, 2013). Learners' capital refers to prior knowledge, home literacies/native languages. Drawing on data from English language academies from Pakistan, this study finds a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Denise Dávila – Journal of Literacy Research, 2025
There is a relationship between children's ability to formulate theories of mind (i.e., metacognitive hypotheses) about persons or characters in a text and their comprehension of the text. Nevertheless, few studies examine how young children engage their ontological background knowledge to formulate their theories-of-mind. Set in a public library…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Metacognition, Reading Comprehension, Hispanic American Students
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Jen Stacy; Nallely Arteaga; Yesenia Fernández; Elexia Reyes McGovern; Pablo C. Ramirez – TESOL Journal, 2025
In California, multilingual (ML) teachers seeking Bilingual Authorization or ongoing professional development must confront the field's sedimentary tensions. Cultivating culturally sustaining approaches to language learning in PreK-12 school communities requires embedding humanizing practices at the core of ML teacher education and professional…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning