Metacognitive Approaches to Developing Oracy : Developing Speaking and Listening with Young Children

ISBN-13: 9780415447669 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 272 str.

Roy Evans;Deborah Jones;Roy Evans

Opis

This book brings together a body of work, from different countries; it offers an improved understanding of how strategies for developing speaking and listening may impact metacognitive awareness, and raise standards of literacy and dialogic thinking for all children.

Spis treści

1. Perspectives on Oracy – Towards a theory of practice 2. Speaking, Listening, Planning and Assessing: The Teacher’s Role in Developing Metacognitive Awareness in Young Children 3. Oral Language Development 4. Dialogic Teaching: Developing Thinking and Meta-Cognition through Philosophical Discussion 5. "Listening to Myself": improving Oracy and Literacy among Children who Fall Behind Narrative Learning, EAL and Metacognitive Development 6. Acquisition of hearing, Listening and Speech Skills By and During Key Stage 1 7. Developing the Communicative Competence Narrative Thinking of 4 and 5-year-olds in Educational Settings 8. Oracy: Social Facets of Language Learning 9. The Prosaics of Figurative Language in Preschool: Some Observations and Suggestions for Research 10. Language Development in the Years before School: a comparison of developmental assets in home and child care settings 11. From Folktales to Algorithms: Developing the Teacher’s Role as Principal Storyteller in the Classroom 12. Supporting the Mother Tongue: Pedagogical Approaches 13. A Longitudinal Investigation of Mothers’ Mind-related Talk to Their 12- to 24- month-old infants 14. Constructing Language: Evidence from a French-English Bi-lingual Child 15. Digital Storytelling in a Science Classroom: Reflective Self Learning (RSL) in Action

O autorze

Roy Evans, Deborah Jones