21 How Young Emergent Bilinguals Rely on Multiple Modes to Make Meaning in Digital Multimodal Texts

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors ix
4. Foreword xix
5. Introduction xxi
6. 1 A Synthesis of How Multimodal Literacies Impact Emergent Bilingual Students’ Literacy and Cultural Identities 1
7. Part 1: Preschool
8. 2 Multimodal Literacies at the Train Table: Supporting Young Emergent Bilinguals through Play 17
9. 3 ‘Can I “Mai” that “Bao”?’: An Emergent Bilingual’s Multimodal Meaning- Making Practice 30
10. 4 Multimodal Narrative Composition in Urban Preschool(ed) Places: What Counts as Narrative and Whose Narrative Counts? 46
11. 5 Learning from Emergent Bilinguals: Mobilizing Translanguaging and Multimodality to Reimagine School Literacy Curricular Spaces 62
12. 6 Teaching English and Solar Terms through a Multimodal Approach to Young Chinese Children 74
13. 7 For a Politically Engaged and Socioculturally Just Language Education through Critical Multimodal Literacy in Brazilian Contexts 86
14. Part 2: Kindergarten
15. 8 La Tortuga Está Tiptoeing: Multimodal Storytelling in a Bilingual Kindergarten 105
16. 9 Move, Play, Language: A Translanguaged, Multimodal Approach to Literacies with Young Emergent Bilinguals 117
17. 10 ‘Being Bilingual is Cool’: Co-Constructing Bilingual Identities with Dual Language Kindergarteners 131
18. Part 3: Primary Grades
19. 11 Multimodality as a Pathway to Bilingual Learners’ Funds of Knowledge 147
20. 12 Creative Creations: Self-Authoring Multimodal Stories 160
21. 13 Teaching a Picturebook Author Study to Support Narrative Composing Processes of Emergent Bilinguals 172
22. 14 A STEERS Model of Literacy to Tackle the Challenges of the Digital for Young Bilingual Learners 187
23. 15 Listening to the Stories of Refugee Children from Burma: A Positioning and Multimodal Study 201
24. 16 Black Girls’ Multimodal Manifestations: Exploring the Multimodal Flexibility of Black Language in Dual Language Bilingual Education 213
25. 17 Theory of Mind: A Missing Piece in Understanding Emergent Bilinguals’ Comprehension of Multimodal Narrative Texts 224
26. 18 Cultivating Language and Identity through Multimodal Literacies: Back to the StoryBoard 237
27. 19 Legos: A Multimodal Approach to Storytelling for a Young African Emergent Bilingual 248
28. Part 4: Out-of-School Contexts
29. 20 Multimodal Literacies at Home: A Survey Study of Chinese-Norwegian Bilingual Children 261
30. 21 How Young Emergent Bilinguals Rely on Multiple Modes to Make Meaning in Digital Multimodal Texts 274
31. 22 Emergent Bilingual Families’ Involvement Strategies for Scientific Sense-Making in a Science Museum: A Multimodal Interaction Analysis 291
32. 23 New Directions 304
33. Index 309