Ellyn Arwood

Language Function (eBook, ePUB)

An Introduction to Pragmatic Assessment and Intervention for Higher Order Thinking and Better Literacy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Literacy teaching tends to take a structural approach to language, focusing on auditory products or skills such as sounds, morphemes, words, sentences, and vocabulary. However, new research suggests that the majority of English speakers actually think and learn in visual concepts, and that there is a cultural and linguistic mismatch between auditory teaching methods and the way students think and learn. This has important implications for all educators including those who work with students with neurogenic disabilities, such as autism spectrum disorders and ADHD.

In her new book, Dr. Ellyn Lucas Arwood outlines a revolutionary four-tiered model of how a learner acquires language, and suggests ways to impose visual language functions onto an auditory language like English in order to improve learning for both neurotypical learners and those with neurogenic disabilities. Dr. Arwood provides tried-and-tested intervention strategies that work with all levels of ability, giving readers the knowledge and confidence to teach learners to become more literate in a way that raises learners' abilities to think and problem solve.

This book takes a fresh look at how language and literacy interact, and will be of interest to educators and special educators, speech and language pathologists, and other professionals who support language learning and development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857004314
• Artikelnr.: 38237744

Autorenporträt

Dr. Ellyn Lucas Arwood is a speech and language pathologist who has been working in higher education for 39 years. As the author of six textbooks and numerous articles and monographs on language and learning, she has established a reputation as an expert in how language is used for learning and how language and cognition interact. As a practitioner in education, Dr. Arwood is often referred to as a "lady before her time". Her development of assessment methods and instructional strategies for children and adults has positively influenced the lives of thousands of individuals, both nationally and internationally. She is a professor in the School of Education at the University of Portland and resides in Tualatin, Oregon.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Part I. Language and Thinking. 1. Defining Language. 2.
Language Acquisition: Learning to Think. 3. The Study of Language
Functions: Thinking. Part II. English Language Functions. 4. The
Cultural-Linguistic Properties of English. 5. Living with a Visual Brain in
an Auditory World: A Paradigm Shift. 6. Language, Literacy and Thinking.
Part III. Language - How Do We Assess and Intervene? 7. Assessment of
Pre-language Thinkers. 8. Intervention for Pre-Production, Pre-Language
Thinkers. 9. Intervention for Verbal Pre-Language Thinkers. 10. Language
Thinkers. 11. Linguistic Thinkers. 12. Language Function Affects Behavior.
Part IV. Educational Applications of Language Function. 13. The
Language-Based Primary Classroom. 14. The Language-Based Intermediary
Classroom. 15. The Language of Concrete to Formal Thinkers. 16.
Evidence-Based Research for Viconic Language Methods. References.
Appendices. Glossary. Index.