Children into pupils A study of language in early schooling

• Main Author: Willes, Mary J.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 1983; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education
• Subjects: Children; Elementary Education; Language arts (Elementary); Language arts (Preschool); Primary; Sociolinguistics; Theories of Learning; boundary; Birmingham Team; Bash Street Kids; tongue; FIAC; Recent Half Century; Nil Responses; Cloze Procedure; Feedback Moves; Urban Working Class Children; mother; Wendy House; birmingham; Intellectual Handicap; Child's Part; model; Common Language; Mother Tongue; reception; Classroom Language; Home School Liaison Teacher; Classroom Discourse; Bernstein's Work; classroom; team; Adult Dominance; Roundabout; discourse; Didactic Discourse; Boundary Exchange; Tad; exchange; Birmingham Model; Multilingual Classroom; Language Acquisition Studies
• ISBN: 9780415751025; 0415694299; 9780415694292; 0415751020
• DOI: 10.4324/9780203149737

This book makes work in the field of sociolinguistics easily accessible to working teachers and to teachers in training. It focuses on the crucial first weeks that children spend in school, and deals with talk as a joint production, in which teachers and pupils are engaged from the earliest stages of the educational process. Using a variety of research methods and observations, Mary Willes captures the reality of what goes on in the classroom, and describes how young children develop both linguistic and cognitive skills in this social context. In addition, she examines classrooms where teachers have to find ways of interacting with young speakers of a mother tongue other than English.