Building bridges to primary education in Mauritius? emergent literacy experiences in a foreign language context : a case study of preschool children

In the context where English, as a foreign language, is the main language of literacy and the written medium of instruction throughout the Mauritian education system, this thesis explores (1) preschoolers' early literacy experiences, (2) the outcomes of these experiences, and (3) the extent to which these experiences prepare them to use English in Standard 1. The theoretical and empirical research on emergent literacy, second/foreign language learning and teaching, second/foreign language literacy instruction and new literacies was reviewed in order to find some "anchor points" (Hamilton, 2006) in the literature. These "anchor points" guided this exploratory study on emergent/early literacy experiences in a multilingual context. After a pilot study, I embarked on a yearlong case study ofa group of preschool children and their teachers using an ethnographic approach.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

School of Education

Year dc:date.issued

2008

Author dc:creator

• Owodally, Ambarin Mooznah Auleear

Advisors dc:contributor.advisor

• Young, Douglas
• Abel, Lydia

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/8222

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/8222