9780044070221 - Reading Children's Writing: A Linguistic View (Aspects of English) von Harris, John; Wilkinson, Jeff (1 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Paperback Edition. Paperback. With contributions by Ronald Carter, Nicola Couple, Michael Hoey, and Pam Morgan. Children's writing has become a subject of wide concern over the paast few years, particularly in Britain and North America, and several books have appeared presenting a variety of perspectives - pedagogical, psychological and linguistic. This book, however, offers a new - and, hitherto, unexplored - approach by focusing on text-organizational methods of analysis. it should be considerable value to teachers at both primary and secondary leverl, and for linguists concered with language in education. In particular, the book considers 'whole texts' produced by children of either top junior or lower secondary age - a time of transition which involves them in significant changes of writing styles. Here the authors consider the organizational features of narrative and non-narrative writing; the use of vocabulary; and the evaluation of children's work. What are the implications of such study for classroom practice? The aim of this book is that it provides a useful and interesting insight into methods of describing, evaluating, and developing children's writing ability. 218 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.).