Literacy and Learning Through Talk
Subtitle: Strategies for the Primary Classroom
Publisher: Open University Press
Published: September 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9780335204519
Subjects: Primary / junior schools; Teaching of a specific subject; Elementary School Language Arts; Education / Teaching; Education; Learning Styles; Teaching Methods & Materials - Language Arts; Teaching Methods & Materials - Reading; Elementary; Children; English language; Great Britain; Language; Oral communication; Spoken English; Study and teaching (Elementary)
First sentence: There is now a substantial body of research which demonstrates the relationship between talk, academic empowerment and achievement (Johnson et al. 1981; Slavin 1983b; Webb and Cullian 1983; Wells and Chang 1988; Sharan and Shaulov 1989; Wells et al. 1990).