Xiao-lei Wang

Understanding Language and Literacy Development

Diverse Learners in the Classroom

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Understanding Language and Literacy Development: Diverse Learners in the Classroom offers effective supporting strategies to address the cultural and linguistic diversity of students in contemporary classrooms.

Discusses learners with different linguistic abilities-infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence-by suggesting effective ways to reach them based on their strengths and needs
Emphasizes language and literacy supporting strategies in a variety of everyday classroom settings
Includes activities and questions to motivate readers to think and develop their own perspectives on language and literacy development
Considers a variety of different language acquisition experiences, including monolingual, multilingual, and language impairment
Discusses different types of literacies, including digital and hypertext
Connects language and literacy development to identity and motivation to contextualize learning styles for pre-service teachers
Supported by a companion website that includes additional resources such as PowerPoint presentations by chapter and a summary of relevant information from the Common Core K-12 English Language Arts Standards

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 173mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9780470674291
• ISBN-10: 0470674296
• Artikelnr.: 41243631

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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 and Literacy 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 Acquisition 65 4 Acquiring More Than One Linguistic
System: Multilingual First Language Acquisition 111 5 Acquiring First
Language(s) with Difficulties 143 Language Sample Analysis II 177 Part III
Developing Language and Literacies: Divergent Abilities in Middle Childhood
(6-11) 181 6 Typical Development of Language and Literacies in Middle
Childhood 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: Divergent Abilities in Adolescence
(12-18) 289 9 Typical Development of Language and Literacies in Adolescence
291 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 Literacy Development and Learning
375 12 Theories That Explain Language Acquisition and Literacy Development
377 Exit Self-Evaluation 405 Appendix: Examples of Standardized Language
Assessments 408 Glossary 410 References 423 Index 448