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The Meaning Makers: Learning to Talk and Talking to Learn

The Meaning Makers: Learning to Talk and Talking to Learn

Wells, Gordon

Paperback

Series: New Perspectives on Language and Education, Book 15

General ReferenceGeneral Education

ISBN10: 1847691986
ISBN13: 9781847691989
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: Aug 18 2009
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

The Meaning Makers is about children's language and literacy development at home and at school. Based on the Bristol Study, Language at Home and at School, which the author directed, it follows the development of a representative sample of children from their first words to the end of their primary schooling. It contains many examples of their experience of language in use, both spoken and written, recorded in naturally occurring settings in their homes and classrooms, and shows the active role that children play in their own development as they both make sense of the world around them and master the linguistic means for communicating about it. Additionally, this second edition also sets the findings of the original study in the context of recent research in the sociocultural tradition inspired by Vygotsky's work and includes examples of effective teaching drawn from the author's recent collaborative research with teachers.

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