Literacy in School and Society Multidisciplinary Perspectives
The "function" and "notion" of literacy may be considered the keystone, a "filigree" principle underlying the educational, social, and cultural organiza tion of the societies of the twentieth century. It is therefore interesting to try to pinpoint the notion and its im...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer US
1989, 1989
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1989 |
| Series: | Topics in Language and Linguistics
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Table of Contents:
- I. Sociolinguistic Analyses and Perspectives
- 1: On the Notion and Implications of the Concept of Mother Tongue in Literacy Education in a Multilingual Context: The Case of Zambia
- 2: Issues and Trends in Early Bilingual Literacy in Brazil
- 3: Non-English-Language Ethnic Community Schools in the USA: Instruments of More Than Literacy and Less Than Literacy
- 4: The Development of Bilingual Literacy Skills: Experiences with Immersion Education
- 5: Ancestral Language Training and the Development of Bilingual Literacy: A Canadian Perspective
- 6: The Use of Creole as a School Medium and Decreolization in Haiti
- 7: Catalan and Castilian in School: A First Evaluation
- 8: Implications of Defining Literacy as a Major Goal of Teaching the Mother Tongue in a Multicultural Society: The Dutch Situation
- 9: Literacy Problems in Hungary
- 10: Multilingual Education in Britain: The State of the Art
- II. Psycholinguistic, Linguistic, and Educational Issues and Problems
- 11: Psychoeducational Language Awareness Assessment and Early Reading
- 12: The Development of Metalinguistic Awareness and the Acquisition of Formal Speech in Mother-Tongue Education
- 13: Evaluation of Text Reading Comprehension: Results of a Research at the End of Primary School and in Junior High School
- 14: Problems of Written Comprehension and Production in Children: A Textual-Pragmatic Study
- 15: Standard Language Acquisition by the Swiss—German Dialect-Speaking Child
- 16: Oral Reading Practice: An Institutional Constraint on the Development of Functional Literacy
- 17: The Initial Reading Scheme: Is There an Alternative?
- 18: Learning to Read and Write: The Results of an Experiment
- 19: Early Bilingual Reading: Retrospects and Prospects
- 20: Problems of Language Growth and the Preparation ofSchoolbooks in Africa