The Language of Children / Edition 1

by Julia Gillen

Overview

The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis (second edition, 2001) is the foundation text, which is complemented by a range of 'satellite' titles. These provide students with hands-on practical experience of textual analysis through special topics and can be used individually or in conjunction with Working with Texts.
The Language of Children:

• introduces the key theories of language acquisition and provides a historical overview of the subject
• looks at all the ways children learn to communicate, from writing and talking to playing and using computers
• includes a wide variety of real texts and data, from records of childrens first words to children's hand-written stories and emails
• explores the language of children from a range of backgrounds and abilities, including deaf and bilingual children
• is user-friendly and accessible, and provides a full glossary.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415286213
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/17/2003
Series:	Intertext
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	110
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Julia Gillen

Table of Contents

Unit one: Setting the scene; Chapter; Unit two: Writing and multimodality; Chapter; Unit three: Play and talk; Chapter; Unit four: Early words; Chapter; Books before speech?!; Chapter; Unit six: Conclusions: theories about child language development; Chapter; IPA symbols for English phonemes; Chapter; Ideas for further projects; Chapter; Further reading;