Kategoria BISAC: Education >> Language Experience Approach

Literacy remains a contentious and polarized educational, media and political issue. What has emerged from the continuing debate is a recognition that literacy in education is allied closely with matters of language and culture, ideology and discourse, knowledge and power. Drawing perspectives variously from critical social theory and cultural studies, poststructuralism and feminisms, sociolinguistics and the ethnography of communication, social history and comparative education, the contributors begin a critical interrogation of taken-for-granted assumptions which have guided educational...

This brand new edition of Creative Teaching: English in the Primary Classroom builds on the success of the original in supporting literacy theory and practice in the primary school with key updates which reflect changes made to the curriculum. It encourages students, trainees and practicing teachers to envision and develop a classroom where children can take risks, enjoy and experiment with language, and discover and pursue their interests and talents in an imaginative yet purposeful way.

Split into three main thematic sections - fiction, non-fiction and poetry - the text...

Many Chinese characters are pictographic and therefore look like the objects they represent. These characters are among some of the oldest and most common characters in Chinese and can often be used together with other characters to form new characters.

More Picturing Chinese adds twelve new characters to the beginning Chinese learner's repertoire. With an easy-to-follow introduction on stroke order and more beautiful illustrations to accompany each character, this book, just like Picturing Chinese, transports the reader and demystifies the system of Chinese...

This volume explores Chinese reading development, focusing on children in Chinese societies and bilingual Chinese-speaking children in Western societies. The book is structured around four themes: psycholinguistic study of reading, reading disability, bilingual and biliteracy development, and Chinese children's literature. It discusses issues that are pertinent to improving language and literacy development, and complex cognitive, linguistic, and socio-cultural factors that underlie language and literacy development. In addition, the book identifies instructional practices that can enhance...

Qualitative analyses of young children s learning in natural settings are rare, so this new book will make educators sit up and pay attention. It lays out a Nordic, or continental European teaching and learning paradigm whose didactic framework is distinct from the Anglo-American system. This analysis, which features contributions and case studies from researchers in a range of subjects, is built on principles such as the learner s perspective, establishing sufficient intersubjectivity, pointing out, and informing experience linguistically. After clarifying some historical background, the...