Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
The African Storybook and Storybooks Canada: Digital Stories for Linguistically Diverse Children. |
| Authors: |
STRANGER-JOHANNESSEN, ESPEN1, DOHERTY, LIAM2, NORTON, BONNY2 |
| Source: |
Language & Literacy: A Canadian Educational E-Journal. 2018, Vol. 20 Issue 3, p121-133. 13p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*Educational resources, Digital storytelling, Heritage language speakers |
| Abstract: |
Storybooks Canada (storybookscanada.ca) makes multilingual audiovisual stories available in multiple languages to promote language and literacy development. Building on a long tradition of freely available, open educational resources, Storybooks Canada provides online, multimodal, mobile- and teacher-friendly access to 40 African stories in 21 of the most commonly spoken languages in Canada (including English and French)- making it possible to support and encourage the multilingualism of heritage language, immigrant, and refugee students. In doing so, the project demonstrates the potential for working against the normalized North-South directionality of knowledge flows to develop a more equitable ecosystem for the mobilization of knowledge. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: |
Education Research Complete |
