Social Construction of Literacy

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. 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
• Assisted by: Jenny Cook-Gumperz (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.08.2006
• EAN: 9780521819633
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81963-3
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: Studies in Interactional Socio
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics