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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808985703321

Autore

Painter Clare <1947->

Titolo

Learning through language in early childhood / / Clare Painter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Continuum, 2001

ISBN

1-281-29466-7

9786611294663

1-84714-394-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (365 p.)

Collana

Open linguistics series

Disciplina

372.6

401.93

Soggetti

Language experience approach in education

Language arts (Early childhood)

Language acquisition

Constructivism (Education)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: London : Cassell, 1999.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-350) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; 1 The ontogenesis of language and learning: a survey of approaches; 2 Systemic-functional linguistics: language as social semiotic; 3 The construal of things: classification and identification; 4 The construal of events; 5 The construal of semiosis as process; 6 Cause-effect relations; 7 Learning through language; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Language is a child's major tool for learning about the world. Through the taken-for-granted interactions of everyday conversation, a child not only learns the mother tongue, but uses it as a resource for thinking and reasoning. This book presents a rich naturalistic case study of one child's use of language from two-and-a-half to five years, drawing on systemic functional theory to argue that cognitive development is essentially a linguistic process and offering a new description and interpretation of linguistic and cognitive developments during this period. The case study examines the child'