Language And Learning: An Interactional Perspective [Paperback]

This best selling collection of original papers represents both for the scholar and the student an updating and a perspective of value on a subject that is at the heart of the educational process.This best selling collection of original papers represents both for the scholar and the student an updating and a perspective of value on a subject that is at the heart of the educational process.General Editors Preface; Editors Introduction Language and Learning: An Interactional Perspective; Language and Learning: An Interactional Perspective; Play and Paradoxes: Some Considerations of Imagination and Language; Beyond Lip-service: Discourse Development after the Age of Nine; Language and Learning in Multi-Ethnic Classrooms: Strategies for Supporting Bilingual Students; Childrens Difficulties in Learning to Compose; Spontaneous and Scientific Concepts: Young Childrens Learning of Punctuation; Language Assessment and Language Teaching: Innovation and Interaction; Socio-Linguistic Development and the Mature Language User: Different Voices for Different OccasionsGordon Wells, University of Bristol. John Nicholls, University of East Anglia.US? Selection and editorial material copyright Gordon Wells and John Nicholls 1985