Developmental aspects in learning to write / edited by Liliana Tolchinsky.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tolchinsky Landsmann, Liliana.

Series:

Studies in writing ; vol. 8.

Studies in writing ; v. 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Writing.

Children.

Children--Language.

Child development.

Physical Description:

vi, 199 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht [Netherlands] ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2001]

Summary:

This book is a developmental crosslinguistic and cross-orthographic perspective on learning to write from preschool up to university level, from children's earliest conceptions of the meaning of writing up to university students struggling with the meaning of computer writing. It includes original research in three different writing systems (Roman, Hebrew, and Chinese) and six languages (Chinese, German, English, French, Hebrew, and Spanish) in different knowledge dimensions of writing: general meaning and function of writing, graphic conventions, punctuation, morphology, and discursive organization. The authors demonstrate that writing is a source of knowledge that triggers cognitive and linguistic development. They also show that the study of writing development is of crucial importance for developmental psychologists, psycholinguists, curriculum planners, and teachers at every educational level.

Contents:

Introduction: Developmental Perspectives On Writing / Liliana Tolchinsky 1

Absence, Negation, Impossibility and Falsity in Children's First Writing / Clotilde Pontecorvo, Franca Rossi 13

Explicit Teaching and Implicit Learning of Chinese Characters / Lily Chan, Terezinha Nunes 33

On the Interplay of Genre and Writing Conventions in Early Text Writing / Ana Sandbank 55

The Development of Graphic Words in Written Spanish: What can be learnt from counterexamples? / Liliana Tolchinsky, Concha Cintas 77

Learning the Written Morphology of Plural in Written French / Michel Fayol, Corinne Totereau 97

The Power of Plural / Gert Rijlaarsdam, Marjolein van Dort-Slijper, Michel Couzijn 109

Talking and Writing: How do children develop shared meanings in the school setting? / Pilar Lacasa, Beatriz Martin del Campo, Amalia Reina 133

Written English, Word Processors, and Meaning Making: A semiotic perspective on the development of adult students' academic writing / Mary Scott 163.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-186) and indexes.

ISBN:

0792369793

OCLC:

46969855