Language And The Joint Creation Of Knowledge

Author : Neil Mercer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429683640

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Language and the Joint Creation of Knowledge by Neil Mercer Pdf

In the World Library of Educationalists series, international experts themselves compile career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces – extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, major theoretical and practical contributions – so the world can read them in a single manageable volume. Readers will be able to follow the themes and strands and see how their work contributes to the development of the field. Language and the Joint Creation of Knowledge draws on the most prominent writing of Neil Mercer, covering his ground-breaking and critically acclaimed work on the role of talk in education, and on the relationship between spoken language and cognition. The text explores key themes, relating theoretical ideas to research evidence and to practical educational situations that improve children’s lives. Offering students and researchers a clear, accessible and up-to-date account of a sociocultural perspective on the relationship between spoken language and cognition, it explains one of the key themes in Neil Mercer’s work – that humans have uniquely evolved the capacity to think together, or ‘interthink’. Offering a crucial insight into the work of Neil Mercer, this selection showcases why his approach has become the dominant paradigm in educational research, and why it is increasingly influential in the psychology of teaching and learning. This unique collection of published articles and chapters, which represent the key themes and range of his research over the last 40 years, will be of interest to all followers of his work and any reader interested in the role of language in education.

Author : Neil Mercer
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1853592625

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The Guided Construction of Knowledge by Neil Mercer Pdf

Through analyzing talk which goes on in primary school classrooms and some other locations, this text explains the process of teaching and learning as a social, communicative activity. It contains transcribed episodes of speech between learners and teachers, and learners to learners. The concepts described should be useful for teachers concerned with the quality of education in their classrooms.

Author : Neil Mercer
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0415224756

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Words and Minds by Neil Mercer Pdf

Words and Minds takes a lively and accessible look at the evolution of language and how we use language in joint activities.

Author : C. Gordon Wells
Publisher : Portsmouth, N.H. : Heinemann
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015012122092

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The Meaning Makers by C. Gordon Wells Pdf

Introduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture is an integrated program that encourages students to be active media consumers and gives them a deeper understanding of the role that the media plays in both shaping and reflecting culture. Through this cultural perspective, students learn that audience members are as much a part of the mass communication process as are the media producers, technologies, and industries. This was the first, and remains the only, university-level program to make media literacy central to its approach, and given recent national and global turmoil, its emphasis on media use and democracy could not be more timely. New for the eighth edition, Connect Mass Communication combines contemporary course content and groundbreaking digital tools to create a unique learning environment. With Connect Mass Communication, the Introduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture program integrates an interactive eBook with dynamic online activities and assignments that help students study more efficiently and effectively. A new bank of CNN videos helps students learn the impact of media through a cultural and global lens. LearnSmart, McGraw-Hill’s adaptive learning system, assesses students’ knowledge of course content and maps out personalized study plans for success.

Author : Jessica Horst,Janne von Koss Torkildsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351616614

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International Handbook of Language Acquisition by Jessica Horst,Janne von Koss Torkildsen Pdf

How do children acquire language? How does real life language acquisition differ from results found in controlled environments? And how is modern life challenging established theories? Going far beyond laboratory experiments, the International Handbook of Language Acquisition examines a wide range of topics surrounding language development to shed light on how children acquire language in the real world. The foremost experts in the field cover a variety of issues, from the underlying cognitive processes and role of language input to development of key language dimensions as well as both typical and atypical language development. Horst and Torkildsen balance a theoretical foundation with data acquired from applied settings to offer a truly comprehensive reference book with an international outlook. The International Handbook of Language Acquisition is essential reading for graduate students and researchers in language acquisition across developmental psychology, developmental neuropsychology, linguistics, early childhood education, and communication disorders.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UIUC:30112064259242

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Alden's Manifold Cyclopedia of Knowledge and Language by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lyn Dawes,Neil Mercer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1741232333

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Thinking Together by Lyn Dawes,Neil Mercer Pdf

Author : Iryna Gurevych,Judith Eckle-Kohler,Michael Matuschek
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031021626

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Linked Lexical Knowledge Bases by Iryna Gurevych,Judith Eckle-Kohler,Michael Matuschek Pdf

This book conveys the fundamentals of Linked Lexical Knowledge Bases (LLKB) and sheds light on their different aspects from various perspectives, focusing on their construction and use in natural language processing (NLP). It characterizes a wide range of both expert-based and collaboratively constructed lexical knowledge bases. Only basic familiarity with NLP is required and this book has been written for both students and researchers in NLP and related fields who are interested in knowledge-based approaches to language analysis and their applications. Lexical Knowledge Bases (LKBs) are indispensable in many areas of natural language processing, as they encode human knowledge of language in machine readable form, and as such, they are required as a reference when machines attempt to interpret natural language in accordance with human perception. In recent years, numerous research efforts have led to the insight that to make the best use of available knowledge, the orchestrated exploitation of different LKBs is necessary. This allows us to not only extend the range of covered words and senses, but also gives us the opportunity to obtain a richer knowledge representation when a particular meaning of a word is covered in more than one resource. Examples where such an orchestrated usage of LKBs proved beneficial include word sense disambiguation, semantic role labeling, semantic parsing, and text classification. This book presents different kinds of automatic, manual, and collaborative linkings between LKBs. A special chapter is devoted to the linking algorithms employing text-based, graph-based, and joint modeling methods. Following this, it presents a set of higher-level NLP tasks and algorithms, effectively utilizing the knowledge in LLKBs. Among them, you will find advanced methods, e.g., distant supervision, or continuous vector space models of knowledge bases (KB), that have become widely used at the time of this book's writing. Finally, multilingual applications of LLKB's, such as cross-lingual semantic relatedness and computer-aided translation are discussed, as well as tools and interfaces for exploring LLKBs, followed by conclusions and future research directions.

Author : Derek Edwards,Neil Mercer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415632942

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Common Knowledge by Derek Edwards,Neil Mercer Pdf

This book is about education as a communicative process, about how knowledge is presented, received, controlled, understood and misunderstood by teachers and children in the classroom.

Author : Patricia J. Brooks,Vera Kempe
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 1471 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781483389776

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Encyclopedia of Language Development by Patricia J. Brooks,Vera Kempe Pdf

The progression from newborn to sophisticated language user in just a few short years is often described as wonderful and miraculous. What are the biological, cognitive, and social underpinnings of this miracle? What major language development milestones occur in infancy? What methodologies do researchers employ in studying this progression? Why do some become adept at multiple languages while others face a lifelong struggle with just one? What accounts for declines in language proficiency, and how might such declines be moderated? Despite an abundance of textbooks, specialized monographs, and a couple of academic handbooks, there has been no encyclopedic reference work in this area--until now. The Encyclopedia of Language Development covers the breadth of theory and research on language development from birth through adulthood, as well as their practical application. Features: This affordable A-to-Z reference includes 200 articles that address such topic areas as theories and research tradition; biological perspectives; cognitive perspectives; family, peer, and social influences; bilingualism; special populations and disorders; and more. All articles (signed and authored by key figures in the field) conclude with cross reference links and suggestions for further reading. Appendices include a Resource Guide with annotated lists of classic books and articles, journals, associations, and web sites; a Glossary of specialized terms; and a Chronology offering an overview and history of the field. A thematic Reader’s Guide groups related articles by broad topic areas as one handy search feature on the e-Reference platform, which includes a comprehensive index of search terms. Available in both print and electronic formats, Encyclopedia of Language Development is a must-have reference for researchers and is ideal for library reference or circulating collections. Key Themes: Categories Effects of language on cognitive development Fundamentals, theories and models of language development Impairments of language development Language development in special populations Literacy and language development Mechanisms of language development Methods in language development research Prelinguistic communicative development Social effects in language acquisition Specific aspects of language development

Author : Herbert H. Clark
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996-05-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781316582602

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Using Language by Herbert H. Clark Pdf

This book, first published in 1996, argues that language use is more than the sum of a speaker speaking and a listener listening. It is the joint action that emerges when speakers and listeners - writers and readers - perform their individual actions in coordination, as ensembles. The author argues strongly that language use embodies both individual and social processes.

Author : Alison Garton
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Child development
ISBN : 0863773702

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Social Interaction and the Development of Language and Cognition by Alison Garton Pdf

For students of developmental psychology, this book should be a useful reference guide to the main concepts concerned with "motherese", scaffolding, socio-cognitive learning and joint problem solving. It is also a contribution to the debate on the influence of social behaviour on development.

Author : Louisa Schneider
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783346089427

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Collaborative dialogue in second language acquisition by Louisa Schneider Pdf

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2019 im Fachbereich Didaktik für das Fach Englisch - Pädagogik, Sprachwissenschaft, Note: 2,0, Universität Münster (Englisches Seminar), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: The problem addressed in this study is whether collaborative dialogue helps second language (henceforth: L2) learners of English raise their language awareness. In this paper, I first give a brief overview about the theoretical context on collaborative dialogue and language related episodes (henceforth: LREs). According to a number of different studies, which will be presented in this paper in more detail, dialogue can help us to become aware of different linguistic and pragmatic problems. Dialogue forces us to cognitively as well as socially reflect on our language used and produced. I will then discuss the data deriving from a study focusing on the effects of collaborative dialogue. The study contains a text- reconstruction task which will be carried out and presented under consideration of the research question. Collaborative dialogue is a "joint construction of language or knowledge about language – by two or more individuals". It is generally an important part of the learning process. Learners can construct their linguistic knowledge and self- or other-repair. The results of the study show that collaborative dialogue has a clear impact on language awareness of the students learning English: different LREs show the engagement and development of the student’s language reflection or production. Furthermore, this paper will point to the importance of collaborative dialogue in the L2 learning and will give a brief overview of what teachers are recommended to focus on while choosing different tasks.

Author : Barbara Hoekje,Sara Tipton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781780523859

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English Language and the Medical Profession: Instructing and Assessing the Communication Skills of International Physicians by Barbara Hoekje,Sara Tipton Pdf

English Language and the Medical Profession: Instructing and Assessing the Communication Skills of International Physicians is designed for a new context for English language teaching: the emerging, worldwide interest in English for medicine. The book offers a program for an English language curriculum that is specifically designed for the important and growing group of international medical professionals, with a focus on both instruction and assessment. International physicians in the United States now total more than 25 per cent of the physician workforce. Even subsequent to their passage of the clinical skills exam required for licensing and practice as physicians in U.S. hospitals, international physicians face communication challenges as first-year residents and may be referred to specialists for language and cultural issues. Advanced residents may face additional issues when they begin work as independent practitioners. This volume goes beyond existing texts in collecting the expertise of English language teaching and testing experts, medical residency supervisors, medical licensing, and exchange agencies in examining issues related to international physicians' performance as graduate students and doctors in hospitals and other settings. The contributors include specialists at the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates and doctors who supervise international medical residents as well as recognized ESP practitioners.

Author : Xiao-lei Wang
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780470674291

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Understanding Language and Literacy Development by Xiao-lei Wang Pdf

Understanding Language and Literacy Development: Diverse Learners in the Classroom offers effective supporting strategies to address the cultural and linguistic diversity of students in contemporary classrooms. Discusses learners with different linguistic abilities—infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence—by suggesting effective ways to reach them based on their strengths and needs Emphasizes language and literacy supporting strategies in a variety of everyday classroom settings Includes activities and questions to motivate readers to think and develop their own perspectives on language and literacy development Considers a variety of different language acquisition experiences, including monolingual, multilingual, and language impairment Discusses different types of literacies, including digital and hypertext Connects language and literacy development to identity and motivation to contextualize learning styles for pre-service teachers Supported by a companion website that includes additional resources such as PowerPoint presentations by chapter and a summary of relevant information from the Common Core K–12 English Language Arts Standards