The Social Construction of Literacy - 2nd Revised Edition

Informationen zum Autor Jenny Cook-Gumperz is Professor in the Gervirtz Graduate School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara. Klappentext A study of how children acquire literacy! viewing literacy acquisition as a socially constructed process. Zusammenfassung This volume raises important questions about children's acquisition of literacy! the ability to produce and interpret written text! which is considered the basis of all school achievement. This extensively-revised second edition contains an updated introduction and bibliography. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The social construction of literacy Jenny Cook-Gumperz; 2. Literacy and schooling: an unchanging equation? Jenny Cook-Gumperz; 3. Interactional sociolinguistics in the study of schooling John J. Gumperz and Jenny Cook-Gumperz; 4. The language experience of children at home and at school Gordon Wells; 5. Narrative presentations: an oral preparation for literacy with first graders Sarah Michaels; 6. Differential instructions in reading groups James Collins; 7. Organizational constraints on reading group mobility Donna Eder; 8. Developing mathematical literacy in a bilingual classroom Douglas R. Campbell; 9. Spoken language strategies and reading acquisition Herbert D. Simons and Sandra Murphy; 10. Speaking and writing: discourse strategies and the acquisition of literacy James Collins and Sarah Michaels; 11. The implicit discourse genres of standardized testing: what verbal analogy items require of test makers M. C. O'Connor.

Product details

• Authors: Jenny Cook-Gumperz, Jenny (University of California Cook-Gumperz, Paul Drew, Et Al
• Assisted by: Jenny Cook-Gumperz (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.08.2006
• EAN: 9780521525671
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52567-1
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Studies in Interactional Socio; Studies in Interactional Socio
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies