Enhancing children’s early language and emergent literacy in a Greek pre-kindergarten heritage language classroom through a translingual and transcultural stance

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Lytra, Vally; Darzenta, Katerina; Atzemian, Myrto and Eleftheriou Kapartis, Maria. 2023. Enhancing children’s early language and emergent literacy in a Greek pre-kindergarten heritage language classroom through a translingual and transcultural stance. Babylonia, 1 2023, pp. 58-63. ISSN 1420-0007 [Article]

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Situated at the intersection of the emergent field of early heritage language education and pedagogy, this paper reports on a participatory action research project at a pre-kindergarten classroom in a Greek community school in Switzerland. Adopting a translingual and transcultural orientation to language and language learning, it scrutinizes the multilingual, multimodal, and multisensorial resources the children draw upon in their creative text-making and talk about texts and interrogates how these early language and emergent literacy practices open a space for children to articulate their agentive voices. It demonstrates that while emphasising Greek language learning, their other languages and lived experiences are listened to and honoured.

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Article

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https://doi.org/10.55393/babylonia.v1i.246

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords:

early heritage language education, early language, emergent literacy, Greek

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Educational Studies > Centre for Language, Culture and Learning
Educational Studies

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