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 o...

Table of Contents:

• Cover -- Children into Pupils -- Copyright -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: the purposes of the study -- 1. The language children bring to school -- 2. Varieties of language use among newcomers to the classroom -- 3. Multilingual classrooms -- 4. Language in the first school day -- 5. The rules of the game -- 6. Discourse and the processes of early education -- 7. Pupils' views of the interactional experience of the classroom -- 8. Retrospect: implications of the study for teachers and future teachers -- Bibliography -- Index