
Literate Apprenticeships
The Emergence of Language and Literacy in the Preschool Years
Praeger Publishers Inc
Published on 1. January 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
164 pages
978-1-56750-149-0 (ISBN)
Description
With an Introduction by Anthony D. Pellegrini, this work is one of the most extensive studies of early language and literacy undertaken to date. This volume describes the four interdisciplinary facets of a three-year longitudinal investigation of the early literate and linguistic experience and knowledge of a cohort of sixty 3- and 4-year-olds. Coverage includes: an extensive survey of home literate environment and development across a broad range of earliest literate and meta-literate knowledge over the three-year span of the study; links early literate experience and knowledge to differential strategies of speech act comprehension over time, showing that early literate experience heightens dependence upon linguistic as distinct from contextual information in comprehension; the employment of parent-child book reading as the matrix for a detailed analysis of lexical development, relating forms of parent-child interaction around text to variation in sophistication of reference; and finally, the examination of child-child interaction in a detailed, naturalistic framework, in relation to aspects of literate experience and knowledge.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
278 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56750-149-0 (9781567501490)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
eder /f Kenneth piro /f Jon son /f Rita lman /f Hillel
Content
Preface Introduction: The Importance of a Developmental Perspective in Early Literacy Research From Communication to Literacy Home Literacy Environment and Meta-Literate Awareness Early Literate Experience, Meta-literate Knowledge and the Comprehension of Speech Acts Talk About Text: Literate Discourse and Meta-Literate Knowledge Literate Apprenticeships and Oral Discourse A Portrait of the Literate Apprentice