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This book situates Alfred the Great in his hagiographic context. For 150 years, the fables told in the ninth century about Alfred's childhood have posed interlocking disciplinary challenges to historians committed to evicting romance from history. Blending current Hagiography Studies with historical, literary, and biblical hermeneutics can help us forgo the anti-hagiographic commitments which motivated the scholars who purified the Victorian cult of Alfred by expunging his legends and salvaging his historicity. The book focusses on the typological functions of three Alfredian fables from the 'Old English Chronicle', the 'Old English Boethius', and Asser's 'Vita Ælfredii', analyses the plot common to all three, critiques the psychological conjecture that Alfred's childhood memory was their common source, and shows that synoptically they can help us see how Alfred shaped the curve of his own life's destiny and how he engaged in the formation of his own cult to last a thousand years.

Hagiography. --- Alfred the Great, autohagiography, childhood memory, historicity, medieval biliteracy. --- Political leadership. --- Alfred, --- Influence. --- Great Britain --- Kings and rulers --- History

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Research on academic literacy within higher education has focused almost exclusively on the development of academic literacy in English. This book is unique in showing how students use other languages when they engage with written academic content – whether in reading, discussing or writing – and how increasingly multilingual higher education campuses open up the possibility for students to exploit their multilingual repertoires in and around reading/writing for academic purposes. Chapters range from cases of informal student use of different written languages, to pedagogical, institutional and disciplinary strategies leveraging multilingual resources to develop biliteracy. They are ordered according to two dominant themes. The first includes accounts of diverse multilingual contexts where biliteracy practices emerge in response to the demands of academic reading and writing. The second theme focuses on more deliberate attempts to teach biliteracy or to teach in a way that supports biliteracy. The collection will be of interest to researchers, higher education practitioners and students of multilingual higher education and academic literacy.

Multiculturalism --- Language and education --- Education, Bilingual --- Language and languages --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- academic biliteracies. --- academic literacy. --- academic reading and writing. --- bilingualism. --- biliteracy. --- higher education. --- multilingual higher education. --- multilingual. --- multilingualism. --- reading for academic purposes. --- translanguaging. --- writing for academic purposes.

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The view that a bilingual speaker, or a speaker acquiring more than one language, is the sum of two —or more— monolinguals is proving to be a myth rather than a reality. Accordingly, this book provides a new profile of children and young people becoming bilingual or multilingual in today’s multicultural Spain. The chapters present studies on the acquisition of the four official languages plus the languages of several new communities. They include descriptive, functional, pragmatic and formal perspectives, covering phonetics, lexis, morphology and syntax, as well as code mixing and input, bilingual twins, SLI bilingualism, narratives, literacy, age and stay abroad effects. The book should be of interest to graduate students and researchers working in the field of second and foreign language acquisition and multilingualism, language planners, language teachers and families alike.

Bilingualism in children --- Multilingualism in children --- Language acquisition. --- Acquisition of language --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Language and languages --- Language development in children --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Psycholinguistics --- Children --- Acquisition --- Bilingualism. --- Biliteracy. --- Codemixing. --- Codeswitching. --- Early trilingualism. --- First language acquisition. --- Literacy. --- Monolingualism. --- Multicultural Spain. --- Multilingual language acquisition . --- Multilingualism. --- SLI bilingualism. --- Second language acquisition. --- Spain. --- Young multilinguals.

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This book discusses literacy development in heritage language speakers and presents the results of four different quantitative studies that investigate the transfer of literacy skills in bi- and multilingual language development. The empirical studies focus on different populations of pupils, most of them located in various parts of Switzerland, and emphasise the potential residing in shared or transferred resources between their heritage languages and the languages spoken in the region to which their family has immigrated. The goal of all studies was to gain an understanding of the factors, both linguistic and non-linguistic in nature, that contribute to the development of language skills in both the heritage and school languages. Theoretical assumptions are put to the test via hypothesis testing and the generally shared assumptions on bilingual education are questioned based on the data. Furthermore, methodological problems in the investigation of linguistic interdependence are discussed. This book contributes to the scholarly investigation of potential beneficial effects in academic proficiency across languages in migrant children.

Code switching (Linguistics) --- Code switching (Linguistics). --- Education, Bilingual. --- Heritage language speakers --- Immigrant children --- Interlanguage (Language learning) --- Interlanguage (Language learning). --- Language and languages --- Multilingual education. --- Multilingualism in children. --- Sociolinguistics. --- SLA. --- bilingual education. --- bilingualism. --- biliteracy. --- crosslinguistic influence. --- heritage language learning. --- heritage language maintenance. --- heritage language students. --- heritage language. --- interdependence. --- linguistic transfer. --- literacy development. --- literacy skills. --- literacy. --- multilingual language development. --- multilingualism. --- second language acquisition. --- transfer. --- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Psycholinguistics. --- Language and culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Children --- Education --- Multilingualism --- Language and languages Study and teaching --- Study and teaching --- Language and education --- Language schools --- Language acquisition --- Languages, Mixed --- Child immigrants --- Immigrants --- Heritage language learners --- Heritage speakers --- Persons --- Bilingualism --- Multilingual education --- Language shift --- Switching (Linguistics) --- Diglossia (Linguistics) --- Education. --- Study and teaching. --- Script switching (Linguistics)