Understanding Language and Literacy Development

von Xiao-Lei Wang

476 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Understanding Language and Literacy Development: Diverse Learners in the Classroom offers effective supporting strategies to address the cultural and linguistic diversity of students in contemporary classrooms. - Discusses learners with different linguistic abilities-infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence-by suggesting effective ways to reach them based on their strengths and needs - Emphasizes language and literacy supporting strategies in a variety of everyday classroom settings - Includes activities and questions to motivate readers to think and develop their own perspectives on language and literacy development - Considers a variety of different language acquisition experiences, including monolingual, multilingual, and language impairment - Discusses different types of literacies, including digital and hypertext - Connects language and literacy development to identity and motivation to contextualize learning styles for pre-service teachers - Supported by a companion website that includes additional resources such as PowerPoint presentations by chapter and a summary of relevant information from the Common Core K-12 English Language Arts Standards

• Reihe: Wiley-Blackwell
• ISBN: 9780470674307
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 10.10.2014
• Größe: 244 x 170 mm
• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons