Learning Through Interaction The Study of Language Development

Name: Learning Through Interaction The Study of Language Development
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ISBN: 9780521282192

ISBN-10: 0521282195

ISBN-13: 9780521282192

Edition: 1981

Authors: Gordon Wells, Allayne Bridges, Peter French, Margaret MacLure, Chris Sinha

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There have been many studies of children learning to talk, but perhaps none as comprehensive - in terms of the number of children involved, the period of continuous observation and the scope of the analysis - as the Bristol Study of Language Development. This is the first full-length volume to be written by members of the research team and it is a fundamental study of language development from infancy to primary school. It synthesises the research to date and discusses some key socio- and psycholinguistic themes with reference to transcribed excerpts from spontaneous conversations recorded by the team and to experimental data. The authors' central argument is that conversation provides the…

Book details

List price: $63.99
Copyright year: 1981
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/12/1981
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 316
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction



Language as interaction



Becoming a communicator



The development of comprehension



Context, meaning and strategy in parent-child conversation



Developing linguistic strategies in young school children



A comparison of talk at home and at school



Language, literacy and education


Appendix


References


Index