He suggests that meaningful language learning is essential for all students, and that all students have the innate capacity to master language as a learning tool. Heath's study of the organization of oral and literate events in several communities in the Carolina Piedmont reveals the variety of ways language functions in homes and communities. Approaches to language arts instruction that recognize the diversity of students are described as well as the direct teaching of school related skills and strategies. Teaching the universe of discourse . Moffett presents the most powerful case for the integration of the language arts into a curriculum that aims for a mastery over discourse in all its forms.
Language is viewed as inseparable from thought.
Education and learning to think .