Raymonde Sneddon
Language and Literacy: Children's Experiences in Multilingual Environments
University of East London
present study investigates language use literacy practices 36 children aged threeandahalf seven 11 gujerati urduspeaking muslim community northeast londonthese experiences explored childrens threegeneration families community school interviews recordings observationsthey related childrens educational achievement whether make use local community cultural religious centrethe findings suggest children access culture leisure facilities community centre maintain higher level linguistic vitality gujerati creative story tellers gujerati english children opportunitiessupport gujerati home oral rather literacybased significant direct impact childrens achievement literacysupport literacy english related books positive impactoverall age 11 children performing norms monolingual englishspeaking children similar background fluent speakers dialect gujerati becoming literate urdu religious purposes