SCHOOL LIBRARIES WORLDWIDE

Volume 7, Number 1, 2001, 46-57.

Theme: Information Literacy

The Cultured Word: Cultural Background, Bilingualism and the School Library [PDF file]
Denise E. Agosto
Research indicates that cultural background creates a framework through which people view, interpret, and assign meaning to texts. This paper presents the major research related to, and the major issues underlying, cultural background as a framework for textual meaning-making, bilingualism, and literacy development. This paper also considers why these issues are important to school librarians and offers suggestions for making multicultural materials central aspects of school library collections and curricula.

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