Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family

✍ Scribed by Xiao-Lei Wang

Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 190
Series: Parents’ and Teachers’ Guides
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Xiao-lei Wang received her doctoral degree from the University of Chicago in 1992. She is a full professor in the School of Education at Pace University in New York. Her research covers a wide range of topics such as cultural parenting styles, effects of nonverbal communication in teaching and learning, multilingual acquisition and development, and moral development. Her recent book Growing up with Three Languages: Birth to Eleven documented the simultaneous trilingual development of her own two children. Dr. Wang is a regular speaker on child development and parenting in local, national and international parents? associations and academic conferences.

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