TheMeaning Makers : : Learning to Talk and Talking to Learn / / Gordon Wells.
The Meaning Makers is about children’s language and literacy development at home and at school. Based on the Bristol Study, “Language at Home and at School,” which the author directed, it follows the development of a representative sample of children from their first words to the end of their primar...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2009] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New Perspectives on Language and Education
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue to the Second Edition
- Introduction to First Edition
- Notes on Transcriptions of Dialogue Extracts
- 1. The Children and Their Families
- 2. Learning to Talk: The Pattern of Development
- 3. Learning to Talk: The Construction of Language
- 4. Talking to Learn
- 5. From Home to School
- 6. Helping Children to Make Knowledge Their Own
- 7. Differences Between Children in Language and Learning
- 8. The Centrality of Literacy
- 9. The Children’s Achievement at Age 10
- 10. The Sense of Story
- 11. A Functional Theory of Language Development
- 12. Toward Dialogue in the Classroom
- 13. The Interdependence of Practice and Theory
- Epilogue: Making Meaning Together
- Appendix 1: The Bristol Language Development Scale
- References
- Index