Children's Peer Talk Learning from Each Other
Produktdetaljer
Biographical note
Asta Cekaite is Professor of Child Studies in the Department of Thematic Research at Linköpings Universitet, Sweden. Shoshana Blum-Kulka (1936–2013) was Professor Emerita in the Department of Communication and the School of Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Vibeke Grøver is Professor of Education in the Department of Education at Universitetet i Oslo. Eva Teubal is Professor Emerita of Early Childhood Education at the David Yellin Academic College of Education, Jerusalem.'Child language researchers and early childhood educators have long focused on the opportunities to learn inherent in adult-child interactions. The chapters in this book make clear that peer interactions offer similarly rich, but very different, opportunities to acquire communicative and language skills. Readers of this book will understand the value of attending carefully to those opportunities and to the skills they promote.' Catherine Snow, Patricia Albjerg Graham Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education
'A major contribution demonstrating how talk children produce for each other provides important resources for learning a second language, discursive literacy, vocabulary learning, cognitive, linguistic and social development, with important implications for reorganizing classroom dynamics.' Marjorie Harness Goodwin, University of California, Los Angeles
'People live and develop in discourse communities. In the present volume, we learn how children's peer groups and peer activities serve as sites of learning and growth. This in-depth account forms an exciting and most welcome contribution to the literature.' Roger Säljö, University of Gothenburg