Umbrellas and angels standing straight – a social semiotic perspective on multilingual children's literacy

• Helle Pia Laursen ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Aarhus, Denmark
• Localización: International journal of bilingual education and bilingualism, ISSN 1367-0050, Vol. 16, Nº. 6, 2013, págs. 690-706
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In a Danish context, the acquisition of literacy by the ‘bilingual student’ is embedded in an education policy discourse in which literacy is seen as a cognitive competence that can be quantified by measuring a number of specific skills in a defined language and in a defined written language. On the basis of empirical data from the research project Signs of Language, in this article I will focus on how a social semiotic perspective on literacy can contribute to adding new dimensions to research in literacy acquisition by bilingual students. I will do this by focusing on how the interpretation and interaction processes of the child affect the child's meaning-making, and by focusing on the discursive macro-histories in which this meaning-making is embedded.