Language Development
A Reader for Teachers
Published on 8. February 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
294 pages
978-0-13-191032-4 (ISBN)
Description
Appropriate for courses in Language Development, Language Arts Methods, Reading Methods or Developmental Reading.
Designed for professors who use a hands-on approach to learning, favoring qualitative or narrative assessment over testing, this book provides a balanced integration of principle and practice that places theoretical material into a practical, real-life framework. It effectively combines essays, interviews and actual classroom examples from current researchers like Anne Haas Dyson and Kenneth Goodman with the primary classic work of theorists like Piaget and Vygotsky to give readers the most relevant recent and historical insight possible into the state of language development in education today.
Designed for professors who use a hands-on approach to learning, favoring qualitative or narrative assessment over testing, this book provides a balanced integration of principle and practice that places theoretical material into a practical, real-life framework. It effectively combines essays, interviews and actual classroom examples from current researchers like Anne Haas Dyson and Kenneth Goodman with the primary classic work of theorists like Piaget and Vygotsky to give readers the most relevant recent and historical insight possible into the state of language development in education today.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Pearson Education (US)
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 190 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
472 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-13-191032-4 (9780131910324)
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Content
(NOTE: Chapters end with Teacher Research Extensions.)
Introduction.
1. Historical Perspectives and Landmark Studies.
Rice, Children's Language Acquisition. Vygotsky, Excerpt from Thought and Language. Piaget, Excerpt from Thought and Language of the Child. Chomsky, Language and the Mind from Psychology Today. Gardner, Encounter at Royaumont: The Debate Between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky. Halliday, Relevant Models of Language. Martin, Excerpt from Out of Silence. Labov, The Study of Nonstandard English. Heath, A Lot of Talk About Nothing. Power, Crawling on the Bones of What We Know: An Interview with Shirley Brice Heath.
2. Talk In Schools.
Goodman, Language Development: Issues, Insights, and Implementations. Wilkinson, Sociolinguistic Studies of Classroom Communication: Implications for Informal Assessment. Cazden, How Knowledge About Language Helps the Classroom Teacher-Or Does It? A Personal Account. Power, Testing the Fault Lines in Classroom Talk: An Interview with Courtney Cazden. Madden, Do Teachers Communicate with Their Students as if They Were Dogs? Dyson, Faces in the Crowd: Developing Profiles of Language Users. Cochran-Smith, Rug Time. Newkirk and McLure, Excerpt from Listening In (Telling Stories). Power, Beyond Geddinagrupe. Fletcher, Words. Pinnell, Ways to Look at the Functions of Children's Language. Hubbard, Write and Tell. Wells and Chang-Wells, Excerpt from Constructing Knowledge Together: The Literate Potential of Collaborative Talk. Hubbard, Invitations to Reflect on Our Practice: A Conversation with Gordon Wells.
3. Sociocultural and Personal Perspectives.
Egan, Literacy and the Oral Foundations of Education. Christensen, Whose Standard? Teaching Standard English. Wolkomir, American Sign Language: It's Not Mouth Stuff, It's Brain Stuff. Steil, An Interview with Hang Nguyen. Scollon and Scollon, Excerpt from Narrative, Face and Interethnic Communication. Hoffman, Excerpt from Lost in Translation. Eisenberg, Teasing: Verbal Play in Two Mexican Homes. Valdes, English Con Salsa. Fine, Silencing in Public Schools. Turner, Black Students' Language and Classroom Teachers. Tannen, Excerpt from You Just Don't Understand. Hubbard, A Love of Language, A Love of Research, and a Love of Teaching: A Conversation with Deborah Tannen. Berube, Life as We Know It.
Index.
Introduction.
1. Historical Perspectives and Landmark Studies.
Rice, Children's Language Acquisition. Vygotsky, Excerpt from Thought and Language. Piaget, Excerpt from Thought and Language of the Child. Chomsky, Language and the Mind from Psychology Today. Gardner, Encounter at Royaumont: The Debate Between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky. Halliday, Relevant Models of Language. Martin, Excerpt from Out of Silence. Labov, The Study of Nonstandard English. Heath, A Lot of Talk About Nothing. Power, Crawling on the Bones of What We Know: An Interview with Shirley Brice Heath.
2. Talk In Schools.
Goodman, Language Development: Issues, Insights, and Implementations. Wilkinson, Sociolinguistic Studies of Classroom Communication: Implications for Informal Assessment. Cazden, How Knowledge About Language Helps the Classroom Teacher-Or Does It? A Personal Account. Power, Testing the Fault Lines in Classroom Talk: An Interview with Courtney Cazden. Madden, Do Teachers Communicate with Their Students as if They Were Dogs? Dyson, Faces in the Crowd: Developing Profiles of Language Users. Cochran-Smith, Rug Time. Newkirk and McLure, Excerpt from Listening In (Telling Stories). Power, Beyond Geddinagrupe. Fletcher, Words. Pinnell, Ways to Look at the Functions of Children's Language. Hubbard, Write and Tell. Wells and Chang-Wells, Excerpt from Constructing Knowledge Together: The Literate Potential of Collaborative Talk. Hubbard, Invitations to Reflect on Our Practice: A Conversation with Gordon Wells.
3. Sociocultural and Personal Perspectives.
Egan, Literacy and the Oral Foundations of Education. Christensen, Whose Standard? Teaching Standard English. Wolkomir, American Sign Language: It's Not Mouth Stuff, It's Brain Stuff. Steil, An Interview with Hang Nguyen. Scollon and Scollon, Excerpt from Narrative, Face and Interethnic Communication. Hoffman, Excerpt from Lost in Translation. Eisenberg, Teasing: Verbal Play in Two Mexican Homes. Valdes, English Con Salsa. Fine, Silencing in Public Schools. Turner, Black Students' Language and Classroom Teachers. Tannen, Excerpt from You Just Don't Understand. Hubbard, A Love of Language, A Love of Research, and a Love of Teaching: A Conversation with Deborah Tannen. Berube, Life as We Know It.
Index.