Biscriptuality

In the context of constantly increasing linguistic diversity all over the world, opportunities and challenges arise for the acquisition of literacy skills. The successful development of literacy skills becomes a crucial prerequisite for educational attainment determining future career prospects of migrant students. Multilingual settings make clear the diversification of languages and scripts prompted by the context of migration. This volume embraces the phenomenon of biscriptuality and aims to provide an approach for investigating the development of biliteracy in the contexts of divergent scripts. This interdisciplinary mixed-methods study bridges intercultural education science, education research and applied linguistics for gaining a complex view on the role of biscriptuality in students' biliteracy. It considers the extent of students' biscriptual skills, specifies language dimensions in which the influence on biliteracy may occur, and differentiates between the effects of biscriptuality on the development of writing skills in two different genres, narrative and expository.