Xiao-lei Wang – författare

Understanding Language and Literacy Development: Diverse Learners in the Classroom offers effective supporting strategies to address the cultural and linguistic diversity of students in contemporary classrooms.

Understanding Language and Literacy Development: Diverse Learners in the Classroom offers effective supporting strategies to address the cultural and linguistic diversity of students in contemporary classrooms.

This book conducts an in-depth research on robust filtering and fault detection for a class of T-S fuzzy systems. On the basis of the existing research on T-S fuzzy theory, robust filtering theory, and fault diagnosis theory, some new and effective technologies are proposed to solve the problems of robust filtering and fault detection for a class T-S fuzzy systems, while overcoming the shortcomings and limitations of the existing solutions.

This book introduces new design solutions for a class of T-S fuzzy systems to address the existing problems in the research of robust filtering and fault detection, namely 1) two new filtering methods are explored to obtain better filtering results than the existing approaches; 2) a new event-triggered filtering scheme is proposed for T-S fuzzy systems with bounded disturbances, which realizes that the designed observer gains in the absence of event-triggered mechanisms are also applicable to the case with event-triggered mechanisms; 3) two new methods are constructed to deal with the asynchronous problems of premise variables effectively, which overcome the defects and limitations of the existing ones; and 4) an effective fault detection scheme for handling measurement outliers is constructed, which can avoid the occurrence of false alarms.

This book is intended to inspire researchers and engineers, offering deeper insights into robust filtering and fault detection for T-S fuzzy systems, and equipping them with the latest advancements in fuzzy system theory, robust filtering, and fault diagnosis. It also provides valuable theoretical references for engineers tackling practical engineering problems.

A long-term study of one trilingual family and how they negotiated language development.This book is based on an eleven-year observation of two children who were simultaneously exposed to three languages from birth. It tells the story of two parents from different cultural, linguistic, and ethnic-racial backgrounds who joined to raise their two children with their heritage languages outside their native countries. It also tells the children’s story and the way they negotiated three cultures and languages and developed a trilingual identity. It sheds light on how parental support contributed to the children’s simultaneous acquisition of three languages in an environment where the main input of the two heritage languages came respectively from the father and from the mother. It addresses the challenges and the unique language developmental characteristics of the two children during their trilingual acquisition process.

This book is a guide for parents who wish to raise children with more than one language and literacy. Drawing on interdisciplinary research, as well as the experiences of parents of multilingual children, this book walks parents through the multilingual reading and writing process from infancy to adolescence. It identifies essential literacy skills at each developmental stage and proposes effective strategies that facilitate multiliteracy, in particular, heritage-language literacy development in the home environment. This book can also be used as a reference for teachers who teach in community heritage language schools and in school heritage (or foreign) language programmes.

This book is a guide for parents who wish to raise children with more than one language and literacy. Drawing on interdisciplinary research, as well as the experiences of parents of multilingual children, this book walks parents through the multilingual reading and writing process from infancy to adolescence. It identifies essential literacy skills at each developmental stage and proposes effective strategies that facilitate multiliteracy, in particular, heritage-language literacy development in the home environment. This book can also be used as a reference for teachers who teach in community heritage language schools and in school heritage (or foreign) language programmes.

A long-term study of one trilingual family and how they negotiated language development.This book is based on an eleven-year observation of two children who were simultaneously exposed to three languages from birth. It tells the story of two parents from different cultural, linguistic, and ethnic-racial backgrounds who joined to raise their two children with their heritage languages outside their native countries. It also tells the children’s story and the way they negotiated three cultures and languages and developed a trilingual identity. It sheds light on how parental support contributed to the children’s simultaneous acquisition of three languages in an environment where the main input of the two heritage languages came respectively from the father and from the mother. It addresses the challenges and the unique language developmental characteristics of the two children during their trilingual acquisition process.