Literacy in Bilingual and Multilingual Education

Monolingual ideologies confronting multilingual realities. Finnish teachers’ beliefs about linguistic diversity

“…Moreover, it is important to develop the future teachers' cultural skills in various ways. Overall, it is vital that preservice teachers have possibilities to experience working with multilingual students (Edwards, 2017).…”

The Three Robbers in Three Languages: Exploring a Multilingual Picturebook with Bilingual Student Teachers

“…Additionally, multilingual children's literature, whether in dual language, multilingual, or translated books, offers rich possibilities to introduce learners to intercultural understanding, empathy, and the negotiation of hybrid identities (Bland, 2020;Short, 2009). Yet, in order to be able to teach literacy in multilingual classrooms (Edwards, 2015), we need to imagine new pedagogical approaches and develop new visions of the teaching of reading and writing. In this sense, multilingual picturebooks particularly foster multilingual and multimodal literacy acquisition, because they can transform translanguagings into creative resources for the learning process (Kersten & Ludwig, 2018;Hartmann, 2020a).…”