Understanding the Transnational Lives and Literacies of Immigrant Children

This book offers insights into teaching and learning with transnational, multilingual students, based on observations, interactions, and interviews with second-generation immigrant children and their families in the US and South Korea. It provides practical lessons and suggestions for creating more inclusive learning spaces and literacy practices, challenging deficit perspectives and amplifying young immigrant childrens voices.

Format: Hardback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 22 April 2022
Publisher: Teachers' College Press

This book offers valuable insights and practical strategies for educators to effectively teach and engage with transnational, multilingual students in today's diverse classrooms. Drawing on the author's observations, interactions, and interviews with second-generation immigrant children, their families, and their teachers in the United States and South Korea, the book provides a comprehensive understanding of how these children engage in language, literacy, and learning across different spaces and countries. It highlights the unique linguistic and cultural knowledge that immigrant children build, expand, and mobilize as they navigate different contexts, and explores the ways in which they position themselves and represent their identities. The book features childrens narratives, drawings, writings, maps, and photographs, making it a must-read for educators and researchers seeking to create more inclusive learning spaces and literacy practices. It includes examples of students' literacy practices, practical lessons gleaned from children's engagement with language and literacy in their everyday lives, targeted suggestions to help educators better understand and utilize childrens unique linguistic abilities and cultural understandings, discussion questions and examples that challenge deficit perspectives of immigrant children and reposition them as multilingual and transnational experts, and implications for educators and researchers seeking ways to amplify young immigrant childrens voices and leverage their knowledge. By embracing the diversity of these students and providing them with the tools they need to succeed, educators can create a more equitable and inclusive learning environment that promotes language learning, literacy development, and cultural understanding.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780807766613