Learning Through Interaction - The Study of Language Development

Zusammenfassung This! the first full-length study by members of the Bristol Study of Language Development research team! is a fundamental study of language development from infancy to primary school. The model presented here will be of interest to a wide range of sociologists! psychologists and educationalists! as well as linguists. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Language as interaction; 2. Becoming a communicator; 3. The development of comprehension; 4. Context, meaning and strategy in parent-child conversation; 5. Developing linguistic strategies in young school children; 6. A comparison of talk at home and at school; 7. Language, literacy and education; Appendix; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: C. Gordon Wells, Gordon Wells
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.03.1981
• EAN: 9780521282192
• ISBN: 978-0-521-28219-2
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Language at Home and at School
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology