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This work was supported by a grant (16‐0007PCF) from the Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood to Portland State University and by the Portland State University Office of Academic Affairs.
Published In
Reading Research Quarterly
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-28-2020
Subjects
Intercultural communication, Cultural competence, Cultural relations, Storytelling, Preschool education -- United States, Multicultural education -- United States, Children -- Language, Language acquisition
Abstract
In this study, we examined story circles to understand how the small‐group activity supports and shapes the storytelling of young students in multicultural, multilingual preschool classrooms. Through a representative example, we show how language development unfolds in the context of a transcultural and translanguaging dialogic exchange of stories. We describe features of increasing linguistic complexity present in students’ storytelling as they established affinity‐affirming connections over ideas, shared ways of languaging, and shared ways of storytelling. By examining changes in one student’s storytelling in the context of a mixed‐language story circle group, we offer insights into both language development and features of the language ecology in which such changes are supported.
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© 2020 The Authors. Reading Research Quarterly published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of International Literacy Association. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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DOI
10.1002/rrq.367
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/35162
Citation Details
Flynn, E. E. (2020). “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Lanza Tu Pelo”: Storytelling in a Transcultural, Translanguaging Dialogic Exchange. Reading Research Quarterly.