The meaning makers : learning to talk and talking to learn / Gordon Wells.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wells, C. Gordon.

Series:

New Perspectives on Language and Education

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Language.

Children.

Language acquisition.

Literacy.

Language arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol ; Buffalo, NY : Multilingual Matters, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 primary schooling. It contains many examples of their experience of language in use, both spoken and written, recorded in naturally occurring settings in their homes and classrooms, and shows the active role that children play in their own development as they both make sense of the world around them and master the linguistic means for communicating about it. Additionally, this second edition also sets the findings of the original study in the context of recent research in the sociocultural tradition inspired by Vygotsky’s work and includes examples of effective teaching drawn from the author’s recent collaborative research with teachers.

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612465956

9781847699275

1847699278

9781282465954

1282465953

9781847692009

1847692001

OCLC:

593253962