Jenny Cook-Gumperz

Social Construction of Literacy (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Literacy - the ability to produce and interpret written text - has long been viewed as the basis of all school achievement; a measure of success that defines both an 'educated' person, and an educable one. In this volume, a team of leading experts raise questions central to the acquisition of literacy. Why do children with similar classroom experiences show different levels of educational achievement? And why do these differences in literacy, and ultimately employability, persist? By looking critically at the western view of a 'literate' person, the authors present a perspective on literary acquisition, viewing it as a socially constructed skill, whereby children must acquire discourse strategies that are socially 'approved'. This extensively-revised second edition contains an updated introduction and bibliography. This volume will continue to have far-reaching implications for educational theory and practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. August 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511331831
• Artikelnr.: 38208233

Autorenporträt

Jenny Cook-Gumperz is Professor in the Gervirtz Graduate School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The social construction of literacy Jenny Cook-Gumperz; 2. Literacy and
schooling: an unchanging equation? Jenny Cook-Gumperz; 3. Interactional
sociolinguistics in the study of schooling John J. Gumperz and Jenny
Cook-Gumperz; 4. The language experience of children at home and at school
Gordon Wells; 5. Narrative presentations: an oral preparation for literacy
with first graders Sarah Michaels; 6. Differential instructions in reading
groups James Collins; 7. Organizational constraints on reading group
mobility Donna Eder; 8. Developing mathematical literacy in a bilingual
classroom Douglas R. Campbell; 9. Spoken language strategies and reading
acquisition Herbert D. Simons and Sandra Murphy; 10. Speaking and writing:
discourse strategies and the acquisition of literacy James Collins and
Sarah Michaels; 11. The implicit discourse genres of standardized testing:
what verbal analogy items require of test makers M. C. O'Connor.