Wang Understanding Language and Literacy Development

Diverse Learners in the Classroom
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-88590-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten, E-Book

Understanding Language and Literacy Development: DiverseLearners in the Classroom offers effective supportingstrategies to address the cultural and linguistic diversity ofstudents in contemporary classrooms.
* Discusses learners with different linguisticabilities--infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, andadolescence--by suggesting effective ways to reach them basedon their strengths and needs
* Emphasizes language and literacy supporting strategies in avariety of everyday classroom settings
* Includes activities and questions to motivate readers to thinkand develop their own perspectives on language and literacydevelopment
* Considers a variety of different language acquisitionexperiences, including monolingual, multilingual, and languageimpairment
* Discusses different types of literacies, including digital andhypertext
* Connects language and literacy development to identity andmotivation to contextualize learning styles for pre-serviceteachers
* Supported by a companion website that includes additionalresources such as PowerPoint presentations by chapter and a summaryof relevant information from the Common Core K-12 EnglishLanguage Arts Standards

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wang, Xiao-lei

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Detailed Contents vii
Acknowledgments xix
About the Companion Website xx
About the Book 1
Part I Introduction 13
1 Working with Diverse Students: Some Important Issues 15
2 Complex Factors That Influence Language Acquisition andLiteracy Development 33
Language Sample Analysis I 60
Part II Developing Language and Emergent Literacies:Divergent Abilities in Infancy and Early Childhood (Birth to 5)63
3 Acquiring One Linguistic System: First Language Acquisition65
4 Acquiring More Than One Linguistic System: Multilingual FirstLanguage Acquisition 111
5 Acquiring First Language(s) with Difficulties 143
Language Sample Analysis II 177
Part III Developing Language and Literacies: DivergentAbilities in Middle Childhood (6-11) 181
6 Typical Development of Language and Literacies in MiddleChildhood 183
7 Learning a New Language in Middle Childhood 224
8 Language Impairment in Middle Childhood 259
Language Sample Analysis III 282
Part IV Developing Language and Literacies: DivergentAbilities in Adolescence (12-18) 289
9 Typical Development of Language and Literacies in Adolescence291
10 Learning English As a New Language in Adolescence 320
11 Language Impairment in Adolescence 354
Language Sample Analysis IV 369
Part V Theoretical Perspectives on Language and LiteracyDevelopment and Learning 375
12 Theories That Explain Language Acquisition and LiteracyDevelopment 377
Exit Self-Evaluation 405
Appendix: Examples of Standardized Language Assessments 408
Glossary 410
References 423
Index 448

Über Autor(innen)

Xiao-lei Wang is a Professor in the School of Education at Pace University. She has published extensively in academic journals and is the author of Growing up with Three Languages and Learning to Read and Write in the Multilingual Family.