Details

Subject(s)

• Language acquisition [Browse]
• Children—Language [Browse]

Series

• Intertext (London, England) [More in this series]
• Intertext

Summary note

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis (second edition, 2001) is the foundation text, which is complemented by a range of 'satellite' titles. These provide students with hands-on practical experience of textual analysis through special topics and can be used individually or in conjunction with Working with Texts.The Language of Children:introduces the key theories of language acquisition and provides a historical overview of the subject ; looks at all the ways children learn to communicate, from writing and talking to playing and using computers ; includes a wide variety of real texts and data, from records of childrens first words to children's hand-written stories and emails ; explores the language of children from a range of backgrounds and abilities, including deaf and bilingual children ; is user-friendly and accessible, and provides a full glossary.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-96) and index.

Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Unit one: Setting the scene; Aim of this book; Starting points in investigating children's language; Towards a sociocultural approach to language development; Summary; How to use this book; Unit two: Writing and multimodality; Meaning-making; Mathematical understanding; Writing in context; Summary; Unit three: Play and talk; Transcribing talk; Language in play; Theorising the significance of play; The Childphone Project; Summary; Unit four: Early words; First words: nineteenth-century studies. Comprehension and production: fluidity in meaningLanguage routines; Summary; Unit five: Communication before language; Books before speech?!; Newborn babies; Early communication development; Summary; Unit six: Conclusions: theories about child language development; Sociocultural explanations of language development; Cognitivism; Nativists; Vygotsky and his influence; Ipa symbols for English phonemes; Ideas for further projects; Further reading; Bibliography; Index of terms.

ISBN

• 0-203-69705-7
• 1-134-44887-2
• 1-55786-517-5
• 1-280-07269-5
• 0-203-69808-8
• 1-283-83971-7
• 1-134-44888-0

OCLC

56066725

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