One of the most crucial areas of education--the acquisition of literacy--is examined here with an effective combination of theory and practice. The sociocultural perspective is illustrated through descriptions of learning by populations usually neglected in treatments of literacy--American Sign Language users, second-language speakers, and minority students. The book covers a broad range of ages, ethnic backgrounds, locations, and literacy concerns from preschool to law school. Although the populations and literacy issues are diverse, the book's unity is provided by a broadly shared theoretical framework.
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"This is an interdisciplinary book that...effectively illustrates the impact of the sociocultural perspective proposed by Vygotsky by describing its applicability to the language learning process of a wide range of groups...The major contribution of this book is...the demonstration of the versatility and generalizability of the Vygotskian theory. The maxim that there is nothing better than a good theory is clearly proven in this book." Chieh Li and Ena Vasquez Nuttall, Contemporary Psychology
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This book deals with one of the major crises in education - the achievement of literacy skills. The approach taken is humanistic, focusing on relevant historical and cultural factors, and providing the reader with a broad range of examples of literacy development and education.
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nonmainstream parents, law student population, alleged influencer, memorandum assignment, paj ntaub, mod math, socializing attention, assembled situations, modular mathematics, city caretakers, beginning law students, experienced language users, new functional systems, situational domains, dialogue journal communication, old mentions, explaining capacity, coherence constraint, virtual text, communicative economy, interactionist paradigm, storybook reading, private speech, inner city mothers, causal connectives Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Academic Press, United States, San Francisco, Curious George, American Sign Language, Silver Spring, Harvard Educational Review, Journal of Child Language, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Linstok Press, University of Texas Press, American Deaf, Humpty Dumpty, Oxford University Press, American Bar Association, Sign Language Studies, Teachers College Press, Colonel Ferguson, Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, Central Mexico, Guadalquivir River, Houghton Mifflin New!
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In the past two decades, a shift in research perspectives has led to a transformation in how educational theorists think about language and literacy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
nonmainstream parents, law student population, alleged influencer, memorandum assignment, paj ntaub, mod math, socializing attention, assembled situations, modular mathematics, city caretakers, beginning law students, experienced language users, new functional systems, situational domains, dialogue journal communication, old mentions, explaining capacity, coherence constraint, virtual text, communicative economy, interactionist paradigm, storybook reading, private speech, inner city mothers, causal connectives Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Academic Press, United States, San Francisco, Curious George, American Sign Language, Silver Spring, Harvard Educational Review, Journal of Child Language, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Linstok Press, University of Texas Press, American Deaf, Humpty Dumpty, Oxford University Press, American Bar Association, Sign Language Studies, Teachers College Press, Colonel Ferguson, Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition, Central Mexico, Guadalquivir River, Houghton Mifflin New!
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- Thought and Language - Revised Edition by Lev S. Vygotsky on page 1, page 18, and page 81
- Speech Genres and Other Late Essays (University of Texas Press Slavic Series) by M.M. Bakhtin on page 41, page 78, and page 329
- Educational Psychology by WILEY on page 32, and page 330
- Curious George by H. A. Rey on page 233, and page 241
- White Hmong-English Dictionary (Linguistics Series IV) by Ernest E. Heimbach on page 345, and page 346
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- Children with Visual Impairments: Social Interaction, Language and Learning by Joao Roe in Back Matter
- Children with Visual Impairments: Social Interaction, Language and Learning by Joao Roe in Back Matter
- Social Linguistics and Literacies: Ideology in Discourses (Taylor & Francis Series in Pharmaceutical Sciences) by James Paul Gee in Back Matter
- An Introduction to Discourse Analysis: Theory and Method by James Paul Gee in Back Matter
- Situated Literacies: Theorising Reading and Writing in Context by David Barton on page 195
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