The language of children / / Julia Gillen

• Autore: Gillen Julia
• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (249 pages)
• Disciplina: 401/.93
• Soggetto topico: Language acquisition; Children - Language
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-96) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The language of children
• 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824546103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Intertext (London, England)