Ebook: The language of children
Author: Julia Gillen
- Series: Intertext (London England)
- Year: 2003
- Publisher: Routledge
- City: London ; New York
- Language: English
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From introducing the key theories of language acquisition to children's hand-written stories, with emails and records of babies' first words, this new text explores the language of children from a range of backgrounds and abilities.
Content: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Unit one: Setting the scene; Unit two: Writing and multimodality; Unit three: Play and talk; Unit four: Early words; Unit five: Communication before language; Unit six: Conclusions: theories about child language development; Bibliography; Index of terms.
Abstract: From introducing the key theories of language acquisition to children's hand-written stories, with emails and records of babies' first words, this new text explores the language of children from a range of backgrounds and abilities