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Literacy Education, Reading Engagement and Library Use in Multilingual Classes

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Teacher and Librarian Partnerships in Literacy Education in the 21st Century

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The topic of this paper is literacy education, reading engagement and library use in multilingual classes. Why study reading engagement? Within educational research, there is a major focus on the teaching and learning of literacy skills, relations between reading and writing, between reading and cognitive development and the impact of socio-economic and sociocultural background on student reading and achievement (Kempe, Eriksson-Gustavsson, & Samuelsson, 2011; Kirmizi, 2011; Nikolajeva, 2010; Peercy, 2011; Sood & Mistry, 2011).

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Tonne, I., Pihl, J. (2017). Literacy Education, Reading Engagement and Library Use in Multilingual Classes. In: Pihl, J., van der Kooij, K.S., Carlsten, T.C. (eds) Teacher and Librarian Partnerships in Literacy Education in the 21st Century. New Research – New Voices. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-899-0_5

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