Learning through language in early childhood [[electronic resource] /] / Clare Painter

• Autore: Painter Clare <1947->
• Pubblicazione: London, : Continuum, 2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (365 p.)
• Disciplina: 372.6; 401.93
• Soggetto topico: Language experience approach in education; Language arts (Early childhood); Language acquisition; Constructivism (Education)
• 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'
• Titolo autorizzato: Learning through language in early childhood
• ISBN: 1-281-29466-7; 9786611294663; 1-84714-394-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777464903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Open linguistics series.