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Author : Elena Gerola West
Release : 2020
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Book Synopsis Representations of Language Acquisition and Literacy in Contemporary Literature by : Elena Gerola West
Download or read book Representations of Language Acquisition and Literacy in Contemporary Literature written by Elena Gerola West. This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elena West
Release : 2024-06-28
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Representations of Language Learning and Literacy by : Elena West
Download or read book Representations of Language Learning and Literacy written by Elena West. This book was released on 2024-06-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representations of language learning and literacy, also known as “literacy narratives” are a staple of literature. They tell stories of conflict that illuminate the sociocultural dynamics whereby we learn to speak, read, and write. Yet, they tend to be read as stories about the “powers” of language and literacy – the power to make someone “human”, to form identity, and improve one’s social status. This book introduces the “literacy narrative approach”, a methodology for the study of literacy narratives that accounts for the conflict that pervades them. It achieves this by focussing on how the texts represent the interactions between writing and other semiotic modes (multimodality). Sitting at the interface between theory and practice, it provides three practical applications of the literacy narrative approach and, in the process, develops a theoretical perspective for thinking about language learning, literacy, and communication as they are practised in the real world.
Author : Elena West
Release : 2024-06-28
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Synopsis Representations of Language Learning and Literacy by : Elena West
Download or read book Representations of Language Learning and Literacy written by Elena West. This book was released on 2024-06-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It offers comprehensive methodology for the study of representations of language learning and literacy and applies it to three important contemporary literary texts. The practical applications shows that this methodology enriches the text's reception and fosters a critical understanding of language learning and literacy as social phenomena.
Author : Paul G. Nixon
Release : 2000
Genre : Education
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Book Synopsis Representations of Education in Literature by : Paul G. Nixon
Download or read book Representations of Education in Literature written by Paul G. Nixon. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen academics, mostly American, from English and political science departments, address such topics as merit and intelligence in the works of Charlotte Bronte, the transformation of English studies through Joyce's Ulysses, the adult learner in Educating Rita, literacy in 19th-century America, education and decolonization in John Saunana's Melanesian novel, The Alternative, the ambiguity of education in Anglophone Caribbean fiction, and the bildungsroman in African postcolonial fiction. One argument for considering representations of education in fiction, asserts Nixon, is that education reflects and enforces the values of the dominant culture, is employed as a tool of assimilation or colonization that most often employs technology to make socialization irresistible. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Charlene Chamberlain
Release : 1999-08-01
Genre : Psychology
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Book Synopsis Language Acquisition By Eye by : Charlene Chamberlain
Download or read book Language Acquisition By Eye written by Charlene Chamberlain. This book was released on 1999-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the early acquisition of signed languages and the later development of reading by children who use signed languages. It represents the first collection of research papers focused solely on the acquisition of various signed languages by very young children--all of whom are acquiring signed languages natively, from deaf parents. It is also the first collection to investigate the possible relationships between the acquisition of signed language and reading development in school-aged children. The underlying questions addressed by the chapters are how visual-gestural languages develop and whether and how visual languages can serve the foundation for learning a second visual representation of language, namely, reading. Language Acquisition by Eye is divided into two parts, anchored in the toddler phase and the school-pupil phase. The central focus of Part I is on the earliest stages of signed language acquisition. The chapters in this part address important questions as to what "babytalk" looks like in signed language and the effect it has on babies' attention, what early babbling looks like in signed language, what babies' earliest signs look like, how parents talk to their babies in signed language to ensure that their babies "see" what's being said, and what the earliest sentences in signed languages tell us about the acquisition of grammar. With contrasting research paradigms, these chapters all show the degree to which parents and babies are highly sensitive to one another's communicative interactions in subtle and complex ways. Such observations cannot be made for spoken language acquisition because speech does not require that the parent and child look at each other during communication whereas signed language does. Part II focuses on the relationship between signed language acquisition and reading development in children who are deaf. All of these chapters report original research that investigates and uncovers a positive relationship between the acquisition and knowledge of signed language and the development of reading skills and as a result, represents a historical first in reading research. This section discusses how current theory applies to the case of deaf children's reading and presents new data that illuminates reading theory. Using a variety of research paradigms, each chapter finds a positive rather than a negative correlation between signed language knowledge and usage, and the development of reading skill. These chapters are sure to provide the foundation for new directions in reading research.
