From Home to School: Bilingual Literacy Development

Monday, May 11 | 7:00 p.m. ET

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This event is free for LLA members. Not an LLA member? Join today!

Registration will close 90 minutes prior to the event start time.

Join Literacies and Languages for All (LLA) for a discussion among holistic educators about meaningful literacy instruction for bilingual and multilingual children. Led by LLA Past President Dr. Yang Wang, attendees will reflect on their practices with bilingual children and families. The event will also provide a space for educators to consider practices in teaching early childhood children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.

LLA members will:

• Deepen understanding of bilingual literacy development across home and school contexts.
• Highlight the dynamic relationships among language, identity, and learning.
• Examine instructional implications that more effectively support emergent bilingual learners’ reading development in diverse classrooms.
• Explore future research possibilities with emergent bilingual children and families.
• Foster professional connections to strengthen collaboration and ongoing dialogue around bilingual literacy development.

Please contact profdev@ncte.org with questions.

FEATURED GUESTS

Shiyang C. Li is a sixth-grade student at Chapin Intermediate School, SC.

Dr. Yang Wang is a professor in language and literacy in the Department of Teacher Education at the University of South Carolina. She earned her PhD in Literacy and M.Ed. in TESOL from the University of Missouri. Dr. Wang is a co-director at the Center of Bilingualism Matters @USC. She is Past President of Literacies and Languages for All (LLA) and Vice President of the Center for Expansion of Language and Thinking (CELT). Dr. Wang teaches doctoral seminars of Literacy Education and Windows into the Reading Process and master’s courses of literacy curriculum development, content area literacy, and teaching reading and writing to speakers of other languages. Her research focuses on reading comprehension, eye movement miscue analysis, multicultural and global children’s literature, English language teaching and learning, and biliteracy development.

FACILITATOR

Dr. Ling Hao is an LLA board member and an assistant professor in elementary literacy at Illinois State University.