Understanding Language and Literacy Development

Detailed Contents vii Acknowledgments xix About the Companion Website xx About the Book 1 Part I Introduction 13 1 Working with Diverse Students: Some Important Issues 15 2 Complex Factors That Influence Language Acquisition andLiteracy Development 33 Language Sample Analysis I 60 Part II Developing Language and Emergent Literacies:Divergent Abilities in Infancy and Early Childhood (Birth to 5)63 3 Acquiring One Linguistic System: First Language Acquisition65 4 Acquiring More Than One Linguistic System: Multilingual FirstLanguage Acquisition 111 5 Acquiring First Language(s) with Difficulties 143 Language Sample Analysis II 177 Part III Developing Language and Literacies: DivergentAbilities in Middle Childhood (6-11) 181 6 Typical Development of Language and Literacies in MiddleChildhood 183 7 Learning a New Language in Middle Childhood 224 8 Language Impairment in Middle Childhood 259 Language Sample Analysis III 282 Part IV Developing Language and Literacies: DivergentAbilities in Adolescence (12-18) 289 9 Typical Development of Language and Literacies in Adolescence291 10 Learning English As a New Language in Adolescence 320 11 Language Impairment in Adolescence 354 Language Sample Analysis IV 369 Part V Theoretical Perspectives on Language and LiteracyDevelopment and Learning 375 12 Theories That Explain Language Acquisition and LiteracyDevelopment 377 Exit Self-Evaluation 405 Appendix: Examples of Standardized Language Assessments 408 Glossary 410 References 423 Index 448