Egbert Assink

Literacy Acquisition and Social Context

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The role of social context in the various stages of learning to read and write is an important key to understanding literacy, and is the chief organizing theme of this book. This work presents a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the research and theoretical work in the field.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 398g
• ISBN-13: 9780745013541
• ISBN-10: 0745013546
• Artikelnr.: 24254020

Autorenporträt

Egbert Assink works at Utrecht University, Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

In this book, twelve of the world's leading experts on the development of
reading and writing skills present a comprehensive and up-to-date overview
of the current ideas and theoretical work in this field, with the emphasis
on the comparison between cognitive psychological scholarship and the
sociohistorical perspective. KEY TOPICS: Covers literacy acquisition from
early childhood through the period of formal schooling and into
adolescence. Contains contributions from both cognitive psychologists and
also researchers adopting a Vygotskian perspective.