This study draws on sociolinguistic theories with the aim to investigate the nature of young
children's early encounters with literacy in their homes and the implications of these …

This thesis is an ethnographic study of the early literacy development of four children from
low-income families in and around Manzini, Swaziland. It investigated the orientations to …

In this article, I describe and analyse some of the literacy events and practices taking place
in a selection of multilingual early childhood (Reception Class and Grade 1) classrooms in …

Research on children's early literacy learning has predominantly focused on a'child attribute
improvement methodology'(Bloome & Katz, 2003) in which the child is conceptualised as …

Background: Early childhood education is essential in bridging home and school literacy
practices; however, recognising the home as a literacy space remains a challenge to …

In this article we present a case study discussion of early literacy practices in the home of a
black middle-class family in Sharpeville, Gauteng. We work with video-text data of literacy …

Literacy in the home is often judged as an inferior version of school literacy. In multilingual
contexts, family literacy practices tend to be characterised as traditional and more reliant on …

This linguistic ethnographic study explores the literacy practices of Nepalese children in the
UK. Nine children (age 8-13) were observed over the course of one academic year, in their …

The aim of this research is to examine the literacy practices of two immigrant Cameroonian
families residing in Johannesburg South Africa. The study forms part of a larger project on in …

This paper takes a socio-cultural approach as it analyze ways in which reading and writing
is taught and learnt to define what counts as literacy in Windhoek urban preprimary schools …