The Language of Children

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Psychology Press, 2003 - Business & Economics - 98 pages

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.
 

Selected pages

Contents

Setting the scene
1
STARTING POINTS IN INVESTIGATING CHILDRENS LANGUAGE
2
TOWARDS A SOCIOCULTURAL APPROACH TO LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
6
SUMMARY
9
Writing and multimodality
11
MATHEMATICAL UNDERSTANDING
18
WRITING IN CONTEXT
20
SUMMARY
30
LANGUAGE ROUTINES
68
SUMMARY
70
Communication before language
73
NEWBORN BABIES
75
SUMMARY
77
Conclusions theories about child language development
79
SOCIOCULTURAL EXPLANATIONS OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
80
COGNITIVISM
82

Play and talk
31
LANGUAGE IN PLAY
32
THEORISING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PLAY
38
THE CHILD PHONE PROJECT
39
SUMMARY
58
Early words
59
FLUIDITY IN MEANING
60
VYGOTSKY AND HIS INFLUENCE
85
IPA symbols for English phonemes
87
ideas for further projects
89
further reading
91
bibliography
93
index of terms
97
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Common terms and phrases

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Bibliographic information

TitleThe Language of Children
Intertext (London)
Intertext (London, England)
Intertext - Routledge
Intertext Series
AuthorJulia Gillen
Editionillustrated
PublisherPsychology Press, 2003
ISBN0415286204, 9780415286206
Length98 pages
Subjects ›  ›  › 

Business & Economics / Education
Education / Educational Psychology
Education / Schools / Levels / Early Childhood (incl. Preschool & Kindergarten)
Education / Teaching / General
Foreign Language Study / English as a Second Language
Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies
Language Arts & Disciplines / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Psycholinguistics / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Psycholinguistics / Language Acquisition
Language Arts & Disciplines / Study & Teaching
Literary Criticism / General
Psychology / Developmental / Child
  
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