Developing Discourse Practices in Adolescence and Adulthood

Examines how people develop their reading and writing skills during adolescence and adulthood. This collection is based on the premise that four basic stances (orientations) underlie the discourse practices: social, textual, institutional, and field. These four stances form the organizing rubric for

List of contents

Introduction: A Model of Discourse Development
Reading and Writing as Social Activities
The Answers Are Not in the Back of the Book: Developing Discourse Practices in First-Year English
THE SOCIAL STANCE
The Artful Conversation: Characterizing the Development of Advanced Literacy
Making Sense of Reading
The Development of Poetic Understanding During Adolescence
Writing and Reasoning about Literature
THE TEXTUAL STANCE
Writers, Judges and Text Models
The Development of Persuasive
Argumentative Writing
Adolescents' Uses of Intertextual Links to Understand Literature
Verbocentrism, Dualism, and Oversimplification: The Need for New Vistas for Reading Comprehension Research and Practice
THE INSTITUTIONAL STANCE
Developing Reflective Thinking and Writing
Teaching English for Reflective Thinking
Reading, Writing, and the Prose of the School
THE FIELD STANCE
Telling Secrets: Student Readers and Disciplinary Authorities
Assessing Literacy Learning with Adults: An Ideological Approach
Developmental Challenges, Developmental Tensions: A Heuristic for Curricular Thinking
Author Index
Subject Index

About the author

Richard Beach, Susan Hynds

Product details

• Authors: Richard Beach, Beach Richard, Susan Hynds, Hynds Susan
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1990
• EAN: 9780893916022
• ISBN: 978-0-89391-602-2
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works; English, Psychology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Language Arts / General, Secondary Schools, Teaching of a specific subject, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Educational: English language & literacy, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Educational: First / native language, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Secondary, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General