Language And Learning: An Interactional Perspective

by John Nicholls, Gordon Wells (Editor)

Overview

This best selling collection of original papers represents both for the scholar and the student an updating and a perspective of value on a subject that is at the heart of the educational process.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781850000280
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/30/1985
Series:	Contemporary Analysis in Education Series , #7
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	180
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Gordon Wells, University of Bristol. John Nicholls, University of East Anglia.

Table of Contents

General Editor’s Preface; Editor’s Introduction Language and Learning: An Interactional Perspective; Language and Learning: An Interactional Perspective; Play and Paradoxes: Some Considerations of Imagination and Language; Beyond Lip-service: Discourse Development after the Age of Nine; Language and Learning in Multi-Ethnic Classrooms: Strategies for Supporting Bilingual Students; Children’s Difficulties in Learning to Compose; Spontaneous and Scientific Concepts: Young Children’s Learning of Punctuation; Language Assessment and Language Teaching: Innovation and Interaction; Socio-Linguistic Development and the Mature Language User: Different Voices for Different Occasions