Learning to Write

First published in 1982, this influential and classic text poses two questions: what is it that a child learns when he or she learns to write? What can we learn about children, society and ourselves, by looking at this process? The book is based on a close analysis of a series of written texts by primary school children and is written for student teachers with little or no knowledge of linguistics. In this new edition, Gunther Kress has made extensive revisions in the light of recent developments in linguistics and in education.
The theoretical focus is now a social semiotic one, which allows a fundamental rethinking of issues such as 'preliteracy' and broad social and cultural questions around the making of texts.

List of contents

Chapter 1 Learning to write; Chapter 2 Speech and writing; Chapter 3 Children's speech and children's writing; Chapter 4 The development of the concept of ‘sentence’ in children's writing; Chapter 5 Genre; Chapter 6 Linguistic and conceptual development: conjoined sentence structures; Chapter 7 The expression of causality in children's language, Gunther Kress, Michael Rowan; Chapter 8 ‘Errors’; Chapter 9 Questions in a social theory of literacy; Appendix List of texts; Bibliography; Index;

About the author

Gunther Kress

Summary

This classic text poses two questions: what is it that a child learns when s/he learns to write? What can we learn about children, society and ourselves by looking at this process? This book is based on close analysis of children's writing.

Product details

• Authors: Gunther Kress, Kress Gunther
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.12.1993
• EAN: 9780415072410
• ISBN: 978-0-415-07241-0
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes > Adult education class / course materials (language); Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; EDUCATION / General, Linguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Literature: history & criticism, Teaching of a specific subject, Language teaching theory and methods, Language teaching and learning, Literature: history and criticism, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Applied linguistics for ELT