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020 $a0867093358 (acid-free paper)
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050 00 $aLB1139.L3$bB74 1993
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100 1 $aBritton, James,$d1908-1994.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50040583
245 10 $aLanguage and learning /$cJames Britton.
250 $a2nd ed.
260 $aPortsmouth, NH :$bBoynton/Cook Publishers :$bHeinemann,$c1993.
300 $a329 pages, 1 unnumbered page :$billustrations ;$c20 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
500 $aSubtitle on cover: The importance of speech in children's development.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 323-[330]).
505 0 $a1. Language and Experience -- 2. Learning to Speak -- 3. Participant and Spectator -- 4. Now that you go to School -- 5. Language and Thought -- 6. The Question of a Lifetime -- 7. Recent Perspectives.
520 $aFor both teachers and parents, the implications of James Britton's now classic work are profound. Language and learning is the outcome of Britton's close observations as researcher, teacher, and parent of how children shape their individual visions of the world.
520 8 $aDrawing in the theories of many thinkers, including Piaget and Vygotsky, the author provides a rich and moving account of how children learn to talk and the role of speech in cognitive development and in coping with the challenges of adolescence. In James Britton's words, "We cannot afford to underestimate the value of language as a means of organizing and consolidating our accumulated experience, or its value as a means of interacting with people and objects to create experience..."
650 0 $aChildren$xLanguage.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023454
650 0 $aLanguage acquisition.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074511
852 00 $boff,psy$hLB1139.L3$iB74 1993