Multimodal Literacies in Young Emergent Bilinguals Beyond Print-Centric Practices

Sally Brown is a Professor of Literacy Education at Georgia Southern University where she teaches pre-service and in-service teachers. Her research focuses on supporting emergent bilingual children as they navigate learning English in classrooms while maintaining the first language. Sally is interested in the ways that digital tools can support a multimodal approach to literacy learning where emergent bilinguals draw from their vast resources in order to construct meaning. She is the co-editor of Multimodal Literacies in Young Emergent Bilinguals: Beyond Print-Centric Practices (2022).

Ling Hao is a PhD candidate at the University of South Carolina, USA. Her research focuses on exploring emergent bilingual children’s multimodal meaning-making process and promoting the literacy development of students with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds.