Kategoria BISAC: Language Arts & Disciplines >> Handwriting

• Explores how writing has liberated the world, making possible everything from complex bureaucracy, literature, and science, to instruction manuals and love letters
• Draws on an engaging range of examples, from the first cuneiform clay tablet,...

Originally published in 1976. How do children learn to write? What stages to they pass through in mastering this skill? What part can teachers play in aiding their development? These are some of the questions that this book sets out to answer. This book offers a perspective on writing which places children's language resources and their development at its centre. It discusses the purpose of writing, ways of classifying its variety, providing contexts for writing, its treatment in schools and methods for helping children to overcome difficulties. A section explores the arguments for a...

The aim of this pioneering volume is to advance our understanding of written language learning in instructed SLA by offering a collection of empirical studies in which the contribution of diverse theoretical perspectives to our understanding of L2 writing development will be explored. As such, the book represents a further attempt to situate written language learning at the core of applied linguistics research, in general, and SLA research, in particular, hence attempting to redress the oral bias of theoretical and empirical work in these fields. It adds a further building block onto...

Arabic calligraphy is at once an expression of piety, aesthetic sensibility and artistic discipline. Muhaqqaq was an early term which captured care, clarity and meticulousness in calligraphy. It was associated with the making of manuscripts of the Qur'an -- a sacred task and one which helped to give the new Islamic order both identity and coherence. Muhaqqaq energed in the eleventh century as the name for one of six classical scripts. This is the first book devoted entirely to Muhaqqaq tradition.

Nassar Mansour, himself a highly respected calligrapher, here traces the development of...

Gegenstand dieses Buches ist das Schreiben in seinem geschichtlichen Verlauf. Es beschreibt die Geschichte des Schreibens als Geschichte einer Tatigkeit. Der erste Teil der Darstellung setzt da ein, wo die Geschichte des Schreibens in Europa ihren Anfang genommen hat: in der griechischen Antike um die Mitte des 8. Jahrhunderts v. Chr., als man zum ersten Mal konsequent alphabetisch schrieb. Sie endet mit den Auswirkungen und Folgen des Buchdrucks auf die Schreibpraxis in der Zeit zwischen dem Ende des 15. und dem Anfang des 17. Jahrhunderts.

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