Language, Literacy and Learning in Educational Practice

Preface

Sources

Introduction

PART 1: CONCEPTUALISING CHANGING PERSPECTIVES

1. John Willinsky: Introducing the New Literacy

2. Nigel Hall: The Emergence of Literacy

3. David Buckingham: Media Education: The Limits of a Discourse

PART 2: LANGUAGE AND LEARNING IN CULTURE AND PRACTICE

4. L.S. Vygotsky: Extracts from Thought and Language and Mind in Society

5. Jerome Bruner: From Communicating to Talking

6. Barbara M. Mayor: What Does It Mean to Be Bilingual?

7. Neil Mercer: Neo-Vygotskian Theory and Classroom Education

PART 3: THE DISCOURSE OF READING PEDAGOGY

8. Martin Turner: Sponsored Reading Failure

9. Barry Stierer: 'Simply Doing their Job?' The Politics of Reading Standards and 'Real Books'

PART 4: THE PRACTICE OF TALK IN CLASSROOMS

10. Maggie MacLure: Talking in Class: Four Rationales for the Rise of Oracy in the UK

11. Eunice Fisher: Distinctive Features of Pupil-Pupil Classroom Talk and Their Relationship to Learning: How Discursive Exploration Might be Encouraged

12. Joan Swann: What Do We Do About Gender?

13. Derek Edwards and Neil Mercer: Communication and Control

14. Anne Haas Dyson: The Value of 'Time Off Task': Young Children's Spontaneous Talk and Deliberate Text

15. Harry Torrance: Talk and Assessment

PART 5: THE PRACTICE OF WRITING IN CLASSROOMS

16. J.R. Martin, Frances Christie and Joan Rothery: Social Processes in Education: A Reply to Sawyer and Watson (and others)

17. Myra Barrs: Genre Theory: What's It All About?

18. Pam Gilbert: Authorizing Disadvantage: Authorship and Creativity in the Language Classroom

19. John Richmond: What Do We Mean by Knowledge About Language?

20. Marlene Scardamalia and Carl Bereiter: Development of Dialectical Processes in Composition