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Language Development: A Reader for Teachers, 1/e

Brenda M. Power, University of Maine
Ruth Shagoury Hubbard, Lewis & Clark College

Published January, 1996 by Prentice Hall Career & Technology

Copyright 1996, 294 pp.
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ISBN 0-13-191032-9


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Summary

Designed for professors who use a hands-on approach to learning, favoring qualitative or narrative assessment over testing, this book provides a balanced integration of principle and practice that places theoretical material into a practical, real-life framework. It effectively combines essays, interviews and actual classroom examples from current researchers like Anne Haas Dyson and Kenneth Goodman with the primary classic work of theorists like Piaget and Vygotsky to give readers the most relevant recent and historical insight possible into the state of language development in education today.

Features


combines actual classroom examples with classic research studies from a wide range of key theorists.
features interviews with today's most notable language researchers, such as...

  • Shirley Brice Heath.
  • Courtney Cazden.
  • Gordon Wells.
  • Deborah Tannen.
offers Teacher Research Extensions—practical activities for students to try in classrooms—to provide hands-on implementation and reinforcement of essential theories.
guides readers through an instructional framework composed of...
  • vignettes.
  • case studies.
  • end-of-chapter activities and exercises.
divides coverage into three main parts:
  • PART I highlights major theorists who have shaped current understanding of how language is acquired.
  • PART II offers examples of how teachers can change curriculum to support oral language development and link that development to written language.
  • PART III deals with some of the complex issues of language and culture.
allows for the integration of other supplemental or primary texts.


Table of Contents
(NOTE: Chapters end with Teacher Research Extensions.)
    Introduction.
    1. Historical Perspectives and Landmark Studies.

      Rice, Children's Language Acquisition. Vygotsky, Excerpt from Thought and Language. Piaget, Excerpt from Thought and Language of the Child. Chomsky, Language and the Mind from Psychology Today. Gardner, Encounter at Royaumont: The Debate Between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky. Halliday, Relevant Models of Language. Martin, Excerpt from Out of Silence. Labov, The Study of Nonstandard English. Heath, A Lot of Talk About Nothing. Power, Crawling on the Bones of What We Know: An Interview with Shirley Brice Heath.

    2. Talk In Schools.

      Goodman, Language Development: Issues, Insights, and Implementations. Wilkinson, Sociolinguistic Studies of Classroom Communication: Implications for Informal Assessment. Cazden, How Knowledge About Language Helps the Classroom Teacher—Or Does It? A Personal Account. Power, Testing the Fault Lines in Classroom Talk: An Interview with Courtney Cazden. Madden, Do Teachers Communicate with Their Students as if They Were Dogs? Dyson, Faces in the Crowd: Developing Profiles of Language Users. Cochran-Smith, Rug Time. Newkirk and McLure, Excerpt from Listening In (Telling Stories). Power, Beyond Geddinagrupe. Fletcher, Words. Pinnell, Ways to Look at the Functions of Children's Language. Hubbard, Write and Tell. Wells and Chang-Wells, Excerpt from Constructing Knowledge Together: The Literate Potential of Collaborative Talk. Hubbard, Invitations to Reflect on Our Practice: A Conversation with Gordon Wells.

    3. Sociocultural and Personal Perspectives.

      Egan, Literacy and the Oral Foundations of Education. Christensen, Whose Standard? Teaching Standard English. Wolkomir, American Sign Language: It's Not Mouth Stuff, It's Brain Stuff. Steil, An Interview with Hang Nguyen. Scollon and Scollon, Excerpt from Narrative, Face and Interethnic Communication. Hoffman, Excerpt from Lost in Translation. Eisenberg, Teasing: Verbal Play in Two Mexican Homes. Valdes, English Con Salsa. Fine, Silencing in Public Schools. Turner, Black Students' Language and Classroom Teachers. Tannen, Excerpt from You Just Don't Understand. Hubbard, A Love of Language, A Love of Research, and a Love of Teaching: A Conversation with Deborah Tannen. Berube, Life as We Know It.

    Index.

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