Literacy in School and Society

Chapter 1 On the Notion and Implications of the Concept of Mother Tongue in Literacy Education in a Multilingual Context

Chapter 2 Issues and Trends in Early Bilingual Literacy in Brazil

Chapter 3 Non-English-Language Ethnic Community Schools in the USA

Chapter 4 The Development of Bilingual Literacy Skills

Chapter 5 Ancestral Language Training and the Development of Bilingual Literacy

Chapter 6 The Use of Creole as a School Medium and Decreolization in Haiti

Chapter 7 Catalan and Castilian in School

Chapter 8 Implications of Defining Literacy as a Major Goal of Teaching the Mother Tongue in a Multicultural Society

Chapter 9 Literacy Problems in Hungary

Chapter 10 Multilingual Education in Britain

Chapter 11 Psychoeducational Language Awareness Assessment and Early Reading

Chapter 12 The Development of Metalinguistic Awareness and the Acquisition of Formal Speech in Mother-Tongue Education

Chapter 13 Evaluation of Text Reading Comprehension

Chapter 14 Problems of Written Comprehension and Production in Children

Chapter 15 Standard Language Acquisition by the Swiss—German Dialect-Speaking Child

Chapter 16 Oral Reading Practice

Chapter 17 The Initial Reading Scheme

Chapter 18 Learning to Read and Write

Chapter 19 Early Bilingual Reading

Chapter 20 Problems of Language Growth and the Preparation of Schoolbooks in Africa