ABSTRACT
This chapter explores cross-cultural data collection and analysis in a study on developing community approaches to foster young children's multilingual literacy in Fiji communities. How important it is, then, that cross-cultural research is multi-voiced research from inception to dissemination. Dialogic encounters were more complex for the project leader who engaged in all the community settings, as well as with stakeholders and the ERG, so as to develop a cross-cultural view of the entire study. Cross-cultural analysis with community mentors, framed by study's conceptual frame work, was the most significant contributor to understanding Dovubaravi's cultural contexts and literacy practices. In Wavu, families' acceptance of the researchers was crucial to all aspects of our cross-cultural collaboration. Our collaboration with an iTaukei early childhood educator, Mere Krishna, who worked with us as a research assistant, also supported our cross-cultural collaboration.
