Literacy Language And Learning The Nature And Consequences Of Reading And Writing

Author : David R. Olson,Nancy Torrance,Angela Hildyard
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1985-04-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521319129

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Literacy, Language and Learning:The Nature and Consequences of Reading and Writing by David R. Olson,Nancy Torrance,Angela Hildyard Pdf

Literacy is an important concern of contemporary societies. This book offers a comprehensive survey of recent efforts to understand the nature of written language and its role in cognition and in social and intellectual life. The authors represent a wide range of disciplines - cognitive psychology, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, education, history and philosophy - and address a wide range of questions. Is literacy a decisive factor in historical and cultural change? Does it alter the mental and social lives of individuals? If so how and via what mechanisms? Does learning to read and write change children's speech, thought or orientation to language? What are children and adults learning when they acquire literate skills? Are there differences - linguistic, psychological and functional - between speaking and writing? And are there differences between oral and written languages?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:692257043

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Literacy, Language and Learning : the Nature and Consequences of Reading and Writing by Anonim Pdf

Author : David R. Olson,Nancy Torrance
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1991-07-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521398509

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Literacy and Orality by David R. Olson,Nancy Torrance Pdf

A detailed examination of the relationship between orality and literacy includes the traditions upon which they are based and the functions which they serve as well as the psychological and linguistic processes that influence them.

Author : Cheryl Geisler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136690846

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Academic Literacy and the Nature of Expertise by Cheryl Geisler Pdf

The first full-length account integrating both the cognitive and sociological aspects of reading and writing in the academy, this unique volume covers educational research on reading and writing, rhetorical research on writing in the disciplines, cognitive research on expertise in ill-defined problems, and sociological and historical research on the professions. The author produced this volume as a result of a research program aimed at understanding the relationship between two concepts -- literacy and expertise -- which traditionally have been treated as quite separate phenomena. A burgeoning literature on reading and writing in the academy has begun to indicate fairly consistent patterns in how students acquire literacy practices. This literature shows, furthermore, that what students do is quite distinct from what experts do. While many have used these results as a starting point for teaching students "how to be expert," the author has chosen instead to ask about the interrelationship between expert and novice practice, seeing them both as two sides of the same project: a cultural-historical "professionalization project" aimed at establishing and preserving the professional privilege. The consequences of this "professionalization project" are examined using the discipline of academic philosophy as the "site" for the author's investigations. Methodologically unique, these investigations combine rhetorical analysis, protocol analysis, and the analysis of classroom discourse. The result is a complex portrait of how the participants in this humanistic discipline use their academic literacy practices to construct and reconstruct a great divide between expert and lay knowledge. This monograph thus extends our current understanding of the rhetoric of the professions and examines its implications for education.

Author : James V. Wertsch,Pablo del Río,Amelia Alvarez
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1995-04-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521476437

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Sociocultural Studies of Mind by James V. Wertsch,Pablo del Río,Amelia Alvarez Pdf

Based on three unifying ideas, this landmark volume defines an approach to sociocultural psychology which the authors hope will continue to be debated and redefined. It addresses the question of how mental functioning is related to its cultural, historical and institutional settings.

Author : Matthew Andrew Goldrick,Victor S. Ferreira,Michele Miozzo
Publisher : Oxford Library of Psychology
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199735471

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The Oxford Handbook of Language Production by Matthew Andrew Goldrick,Victor S. Ferreira,Michele Miozzo Pdf

Featuring contributions from psycholinguists, cognitive neuroscientists, and linguists, this book provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary review of the core aspects of human language processing.

Author : Rona F. Flippo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136861055

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Reading Researchers in Search of Common Ground by Rona F. Flippo Pdf

In Reading Researchers in Search of Common Ground, Second Edition, Rona F. Flippo revisits her groundbreaking Expert Study, in which she set out to find common ground among experts in the much-fragmented field of reading research. The original edition, featuring contributions from participants in the Expert Study, commentary from additional distinguished literacy scholars with specialized experiences and vantage points from which to view it, and recommendations for use of its findings, was published in 2001 and has become a classic in the field. The Expert Study’s findings and discussions related to it remain provocative, viable, and highly relevant. Taking a fresh look at it, and its current implications for literacy education and common ground in light of the newest thinking and research of today, the Second Edition includes four new chapters from leaders in the field who discuss the Study from their unique vantage points (literacy trends, emergent writing development, a comprehensive literacy curriculum, and a comparative analysis of the study’s findings and recommendations). It is a must-read resource for the entire literacy community − researchers, teacher educators, graduate students, administrators, practitioners, and policymakers.

Author : Peter Elbow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199912896

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Vernacular Eloquence by Peter Elbow Pdf

Since the publication of his groundbreaking books Writing Without Teachers and Writing with Power, Peter Elbow has revolutionized how people think about writing. Now, in Vernacular Eloquence, he makes a vital new contribution to both practice and theory. The core idea is simple: we can enlist virtues from the language activity most people find easiest-speaking-for the language activity most people find hardest-writing. Speech, with its spontaneity, naturalness of expression, and fluidity of thought, has many overlooked linguistic and rhetorical merits. Through several easy to employ techniques, writers can marshal this "wisdom of the tongue" to produce stronger, clearer, more natural writing. This simple idea, it turns out, has deep repercussions. Our culture of literacy, Elbow argues, functions as though it were a plot against the spoken voice, the human body, vernacular language, and those without privilege-making it harder than necessary to write with comfort or power. Giving speech a central role in writing overturns many empty preconceptions. It causes readers to think critically about the relationship between speech, writing, and our notion of literacy. Developing the political implications behind Elbow's previous books, Vernacular Eloquence makes a compelling case that strengthening writing and democratizing it go hand in hand.

Author : Cheryl Geisler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136690839

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Academic Literacy and the Nature of Expertise by Cheryl Geisler Pdf

The first full-length account integrating both the cognitive and sociological aspects of reading and writing in the academy, this unique volume covers educational research on reading and writing, rhetorical research on writing in the disciplines, cognitive research on expertise in ill-defined problems, and sociological and historical research on the professions. The author produced this volume as a result of a research program aimed at understanding the relationship between two concepts -- literacy and expertise -- which traditionally have been treated as quite separate phenomena. A burgeoning literature on reading and writing in the academy has begun to indicate fairly consistent patterns in how students acquire literacy practices. This literature shows, furthermore, that what students do is quite distinct from what experts do. While many have used these results as a starting point for teaching students "how to be expert," the author has chosen instead to ask about the interrelationship between expert and novice practice, seeing them both as two sides of the same project: a cultural-historical "professionalization project" aimed at establishing and preserving the professional privilege. The consequences of this "professionalization project" are examined using the discipline of academic philosophy as the "site" for the author's investigations. Methodologically unique, these investigations combine rhetorical analysis, protocol analysis, and the analysis of classroom discourse. The result is a complex portrait of how the participants in this humanistic discipline use their academic literacy practices to construct and reconstruct a great divide between expert and lay knowledge. This monograph thus extends our current understanding of the rhetoric of the professions and examines its implications for education.

Author : Clotilde Pontecorvo,Margherita Orsolini,Barbara Burge,Lauren B. Resnick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135446819

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Children's Early Text Construction by Clotilde Pontecorvo,Margherita Orsolini,Barbara Burge,Lauren B. Resnick Pdf

For decades, research on children's literacy has been dominated by questions of how children learn to read. Especially among Anglophone scholars, cognitive and psycholinguistic research on reading has been the only approach to studying written language education. Echoing this, debates on methods of teaching children to read have long dominated the educational scene. This book presents an alternative view. In recent years, writing has emerged as a central aspect of becoming literate. Research in cognitive psychology has shown that writing is a highly complex activity involving a degree of planning unknown in everyday conversational uses of language. At the same time, developmental studies have revealed that when young children are asked to "write," they show a surprisingly sophisticated understanding of the representational constraints of alphabetic writing systems. They show this understanding long before they can read conventional writing on their own. The rich structure of meanings involved in the word text provided the glue that brought together a group of scholars from several disciplines in an international workshop held in Rome. Reflecting the state of the field at the time, the majority of the workshop participants were scholars working in languages other than English, especially the romance languages. Their work mirrors a linguistic and psychological research tradition that Anglophone scholars knew little of until recently. This volume provides English-language readers with updated versions of the papers presented at the meeting. The topics discussed at the workshop are represented in the chapters as follows: * the relationship between acquisition of language and familiarity with written texts; * the reciprocal "permeability" between spoken and written language; * the initial phases of text construction by children; and * the educational conditions that facilitate written language acquisition and writing practice.

Author : Braj B. Kachru,Yamuna Kachru,S. N. Sridhar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1139465503

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Language in South Asia by Braj B. Kachru,Yamuna Kachru,S. N. Sridhar Pdf

South Asia is a rich and fascinating linguistic area, its many hundreds of languages from four major language families representing the distinctions of caste, class, profession, religion, and region. This comprehensive new volume presents an overview of the language situation in this vast subcontinent in a linguistic, historical and sociolinguistic context. An invaluable resource, it comprises authoritative contributions from leading international scholars within the fields of South Asian language and linguistics, historical linguistics, cultural studies and area studies. Topics covered include the ongoing linguistic processes, controversies, and implications of language modernization; the functions of South Asian languages within the legal system, media, cinema, and religion; language conflicts and politics, and Sanskrit and its long traditions of study and teaching. Language in South Asia is an accessible interdisciplinary book for students and scholars in sociolinguistics, multilingualism, language planning and South Asian studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401206747

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Cyberculture and New Media by Anonim Pdf

In the extension of digital media from optional means to central site of activity, the domains of language, art, learning, play, film, and politics have been subject to radical reconfigurations as mediating structures. This book examines how this changed relationship has in each case shaped a new form of discourse between self and culture and illustrates explicitly the character of mediated agency beyond the formal separateness from lived experience that was once conveniently termed the virtual and which has come to influence common assumptions about creative expression itself.

Author : Rebecca Barr,Michael L. Kamil,Peter B. Mosenthal,P David Pearson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1108 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351796736

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Handbook of Reading Research, Volume II by Rebecca Barr,Michael L. Kamil,Peter B. Mosenthal,P David Pearson Pdf

A comprehensive overview of important contemporary issues in the field of reading research from the mid 1980s to mid 1990s, this well-received volume offers readers an examination of literacy through a variety of lenses--some permitting microscopic views and others panoramic views. A veritable "who's who" of specialists in the field, chapter authors cover current methodology, as well as cumulative research-based knowledge. Because it deals with society and literacy, the first section provides the broadest possible view of literacy. The second section defines the range of activities culturally determined to be a part of the enterprise known as literacy. The third focuses on the processes that individuals engage in when they perform the act of reading. The fourth section visits the environment in which the knowledge that comprises literacy is passed on from one generation to the next. The last section, an epilogue to the whole enterprise of reading research, provides apt philosophical reflection.

Author : Jeni Riley,David Reedy
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781446264805

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Developing Writing for Different Purposes by Jeni Riley,David Reedy Pdf

`Jeni Riley and David Reedy share excellent examples of how primary school children worked on a non-fiction text format.... A well-informed book with a welcome dose of humour′ - Nursery World `The theoretical underpinning to this volume is rigorous and the case studies are both endearing and informative′ - Early Years `One of the insights of social theories of language which is now taken for granted is that language varies as the social context varies′ (Kress, 1997) This is a book that operationalizes this insight: it charts young children′s early attempts to write as they struggle to communicate meaning for a variety of purposes. Each section deals with the appropriate research evidence on the development of children′s competence in literacy, and their growing awareness of genre, and uniquely, with a clear approach to teaching children from three to seven years. The text combines the necessary theoretical underpinning plus the day-to-day practical experience of working with young children in order to develop their understanding of the different forms and language of texts.

Author : S. Joel Warrican
Publisher : Ian Randle Publishers
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : English language
ISBN : 9789766372064

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Hard Words by S. Joel Warrican Pdf

"Throughout the Caribbean, there is concern about the standard of writing among students. This concern is verbalized in numerous reports from the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) on students performance in English in their certification examinations. Hard Words offers solutions to this problem by exploring the effects of English-based Creole on students writing and by promoting reading as powerful tool that can assist students and teachers in the classroom. Existing studies of adolescents leisure reading rarely afford the opportunity to observe them engaging with reading material over an extended period. In Hard Words the author uses observations and in-depth interviews to gauge students reaction to different reading material, reading-related activities and streaming. This study is unique in its provision of a programme to promote a culture of leisure reading as well as a mechanism for assessing the relationship between reading for pleasure and writing. It also offers insights into students thoughts about reading, their preference of reading materials and activities that can be used to encourage them to read more. Through the use of figures, tables, samples of students writing and useful references, the book provides a valuable source of teaching strategies for Caribbean Students in classrooms both within and outside the Caribbean. "