Language learning : a lifelong process
"Language Learning provides an introduction to language development that differs from existing books in that it traces language and cognitive development (together with the associated debates) from babyhood, through the school years of middle childhood and adolescence, into adulthood and the world of work."--BOOK JACKET
Print Book, English, 2003
Arnold ; Distributed in the United States of America by Oxford University Press, London, New York, 2003
ix, 294 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780340762813, 9780340762820, 0340762810, 0340762829
50017623
1. What is language?
Phonemes or sounds
Learning the phonemes of English
Learning words: the lexicon
Learning the grammar or syntax
Learning to read and write
2. What we know about language learning
Baby talk
Longitudinal studies of children learning language
Language development and physical factors
Language and cognition: Jean Piaget (1896-1980)
Language inside the head
Noam Chomsky
Chomsky on Chomsky
3. Learning to communicate
The development of pragmatic and communicative competence
Schema theory
Frame theory
Script theory
Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934)
Vygotsky's zone of proximal development
4. A social view of language learning
The Hallidayan description of language as socio-semiotic
Halliday's description of Nigel learning how to mean
Painter's description of language as a resource for learning
Halliday's description of learning how to mean
5. Learning how to get things done in the first two years of life
The beginnings
Trevarthen's primary intersubjectivity
Secondary intersubjectivity
Protolanguage
Into the mother tongue
Moving towards an adult linguistic system
Bilingualism and multilingualism. 6. Language as a resource for learning
Language and thinking
Children construct knowledge
Development cannot be separated from its social context
Learning can lead development
Language plays a central role in cognitive development
Language development and learner strategies
Taking a closer look at what children say and do with language
The child learning language in a multilingual environment
7. Language development in the school
The transition from commonsense knowledge to educational knowledge
Classroom talk
Oral genres
8. Developing language through writing
Components of the structure of written texts
Genre
Core-genre in the development of educational knowledge
Changing features of writing on entering secondary school
9. Critical language awareness
Contextualization
Meta-level awareness
Taking a closer look at text types
What young readers might not know
10. Multiliteracies
Television
Magazines
11. Learning language(s): creating a linguistic biography
Aspects of a person's linguistic repertoire
Contexts and the creation of a linguistic biography
An ecological description of language development
Context(s) and language development
Characteristics of a linguistic biography
Language development within an ecolinguistic framework