Sociocultural Approaches to Language and Literacy: An Interactionist Perspective

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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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One of the most crucial areas of education - the development of oral language and 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 pre-school to law school. Although the populations and literacy issues are diverse, the book's unity is provided by a broadly shared theoretical framework. As such, Interactionist Approaches to Language and Literacy will be valuable to educators at every level and to researchers in applied linguistics, psychology, adult literacy programs, and English as a second language.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to the Volume; Part I. Context: 2. Introduction to the Section; 3. An interactionist approach to the analysis of similarities and differences between spoken and written language Larry Smith; 4. Repair in spontaneous speech: A window on second language development Hanery Shonerd; 5. Struggling for a voice: An interactionist view of language and literacy in Deaf Education Sherman Wilcox; Part II. Mediation: 6. Introduction to the Section; 7. Nonverbal factors in the interpsychic to intrpsychic internalisation of objects David McNeill Karl-Erik McCullough and Martha Tyrone: 8. An ecological approach to the emergence of the lexicon: Socializing attention Patricia Goldring Zukow and Kelly R. Duncan: 9. Learning how to explain: the effects of mother's language on the child Maria Silvia Barbieri and Liliana Landolfi; 10. Developing the representational functions of language: the role of parent-child book reading activity Carolyn P. Panofsky; 11. The implications of Vygotskian theory for the development of home-school programs: A focus on storybook reading Patricia A. Edwards and Georgia Earnest Garcia; 12. Vygotsky in the classroom: An interactionist literacy framework in mathematics Pat Cordeiro; Part III. Functunal Systems: 13. Introduction to the Section; 14. Adults learning literacy: The role of private speech in reading comprehension Juan D. Ramirez; 15. From 'Paj Ntaub' to paragraphs: Perspectives on Hmong processes of composing Francine Filipek Colignon; 16. Toward a definition of law school readiness Michelle Minnis.

Review

"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 a major crisis in education - the achievement of literacy skills.

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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 a major crisis in education - the achievement of literacy skills.

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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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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.

Details ISBN052108976X Short Title SOCIOCULTURAL APPROACHES TO LA Publisher Cambridge University Press Language English ISBN-10 052108976X ISBN-13 9780521089760 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY 401.93 Year 2008 Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle An Interactionist Perspective Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by Carolyn P. Panofsky Birth 1930 Affiliation Rhode Island College, U.S.A. Author Larry W. Smith Pages 416 Illustrations 29 Tables, unspecified; 19 Line drawings, unspecified UK Release Date 2008-11-06 AU Release Date 2008-11-06 NZ Release Date 2008-11-06 Publication Date 2008-11-06 Alternative 9780511897047 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this

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