Reading in two languages: Parents’ strategy and language use across book formats during bilingual shared reading

• DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/3vf8s
• Publication Date: 2022-12-21T05:00:59Z
• Authors: Erin Quirk; Melanie Brouillard; Krista Byers-Hein...
• Keywords: Dialogic; Shared reading

This pre-print presents a study of 24 French-English bilingual parents reading books different formats (single-language in the parent's dominant language, single-language non-dominant language or bilingual) to their pre-school-aged children. We analyzed parents' interactions terms quantity (number words) and quality (production dialogic strategies), considering both languages separately together. present results these analyses discuss potential implications for families' efforts support children's literacy development two languages.