@inbook{50c82a238e734582ada20d780a7bd65a,
title = "Multimodal literacies of emergent bilingual siblings: traversing the Southeastern US and Honduras",
abstract = "The chapter showcases a longitudinal, qualitative study spanning three years, which examines a Honduran American family's language and literacy practices with two young siblings. Understanding translanguaging from a multimodal perspective informs how emergent bilinguals make sense of their world and engage with bicultural and biliteracy practices in the US and Honduras. Collected data included videotaped interactions, transcripts, digital and paper-based reader response samples, field notes, interviews, and photos/video clips of family interactions. Three research questions were investigated using multimodal mediation analysis: (a) What were their translanguaging practices? (b) How did the children's translanguaging practices change across spaces and over time? (c) What contributed to these changes? Findings revealed three factors impacting translanguaging practices: parental efforts towards heritage culture and language maintenance, teachers{\textquoteright} support affirming the siblings{\textquoteright} full linguistic repertoire, and the affordances of multimodal and digital literacies.",
keywords = "Community, Digital learning, Latinx, Literacy practices, Multimodal, Translanguaging",
author = "Sally Brown and Rong Zhang",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} The Editors and Contributing Authors Severally 2025. All rights reserved.",
year = "2025",
month = jun,
day = "12",
doi = "10.4337/9781035326983.00013",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781035326976",
series = "Handbook of Literacy in Families and Communities",
publisher = "Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.",
pages = "134--151",
booktitle = "Handbook of Literacy in Families and Communities",
address = "United Kingdom",
}