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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813033203321

Autore

Willes Mary J.

Titolo

Children into pupils : a study of language in early schooling / / Mary J. Willes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-51521-6

1-280-77646-3

9786613686855

1-136-51522-4

0-203-14973-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Collana

Routledge library editions . Education ; ; v. 119

Disciplina

372.6

Soggetti

Children - Language

Language arts (Preschool)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1983 by Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Halftitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; General Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The purposes of the study; 1. The language children bring to school; 2. Varieties of language use among newcomers to the classroom; 3. Multilingual classrooms; 4. Language in the first school day; 5. The rules of the game; 6. Discourse and the processes of early education; 7. Pupils' views of the interactional experience of the classroom; 8. Retrospect: Implications of the study for teachers and future teachers; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book makes work in the field of sociolinguistics easily accessible to working teachers and to teachers in training. It focuses on the crucial first weeks that children spend in school, and deals with talk as a joint production, in which teachers and pupils are engaged from the earliest stages of the educational process. Using a variety of research methods and observations, Mary Willes captures the reality of what goes on in the classroom, and describes how young children develop both linguistic and cognitive skills in this social context. In addition, she examines classrooms where teac