Language, literacy, and culture
Subtitle: issues of society and schooling
By: edited by Judith A. Langer.
Contributors: Langer, Judith A.
Publisher: Ablex Pub. Corp.; ABC-CLIO, LLC
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Norwood, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
Subjects: Literacy -- Congresses; Educational sociology -- Congresses; Sociolinguistics -- Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
"This volume grows out of a 2-day conference ... organized at Stanford University in the fall of 1985"--Introd.
Table of contents: title: A sociocognitive perspective on literacy / Judith A. Langer; title: Second game : a school's-eye view of intelligence / Robert J. Sternberg; title: Metacognition in second language behavior / Richard P. Duran; title: The orality of literature and the literacy of conversation / Deborah Tannen; title: The literate essay : using ethnography to explode myths / Shirley Brice Heath; title: Literacy and language change / Elizabeth Closs Traugott; title: The community as educator / William Labov; title: Opportunity structure, cultural boundaries, and literacy / John U. Ogbu; title: A socio-historical approach to literacy development / Thom Huebner; title: New technologies, basic skills, and the underside of education / Peg Griffin and Michael Cole.