1st Edition

Metacognitive Approaches to Developing Oracy Developing Speaking and Listening with Young Children

Edited By Roy Evans, Deborah Jones Copyright 2009
268 Pages
by Routledge

268 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

272 Pages 19 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The acquisition of speech and language represent significant achievements for all children. These aspects of child development have received substantial attention in the research literature and a considerable body of theoretical knowledge exists to chart progress from infancy to maturity. Cross-cultural studies have identified the common purposes served by the acquisition of oral language by... Read more

Perspectives on Oracy – Towards a theory of practice / Deborah Jones and Roy Evans

Speaking, Listening, Planning and Assessing: The Teacher’s Role in Developing Metacognitive Awareness in Young Children / Deborah Jones

Oral Language Development / Alice Sterling Honig

Dialogic Teaching: Developing Thinking and Meta-Cognition through Philosophical Discussion / Robert Fisher

"Listening to Myself": improving Oracy and Literacy among Children who Fall Behind / Flora J. Macleod, Philip Macmillan and Brahm Norwich

Narrative Learning, EAL and Metacognitive Development / Martin Cortazzi and Lixian Jin

Acquisition of hearing, Listening and Speech Skills By and During Key Stage 1 / Helen Robinshaw

Developing the Communicative Competence Narrative Thinking of 4 and 5-year-olds in Educational Settings / Melanie E Wilde and Rosemary Sage

Oracy: Social Facets of Language Learning / Olivia N Saracho and Bernard Spodek

The Prosaics of Figurative Language in Preschool: Some Observations and Suggestions for Research / Niklas Pramling and Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson

Language Development in the Years before School: a comparison of developmental assets in home and child care settings / Daniel J Weigel, Jennifer L Lowman and Sally Martin

From Folktales to Algorithms: Developing the Teacher’s Role as Principal Storyteller in the Classroom / Alistair K. Daniel

Supporting the Mother Tongue: Pedagogical Approaches / Theodora Papatheodorou

A Longitudinal Investigation of Mothers’ Mind-related Talk to Their 12- to 24- month-old infants / S Degotardi and J Torr

Constructing Language: Evidence from a French-English Bi-lingual Child / Gee Macrory

Digital Storytelling in a Science Classroom: Reflective Self Learning (RSL) in Action / Yordanka Valkanova and Mike Watts

 

 

 

 

 

Biography

Roy Evans, Deborah Jones