Language and LearningFor 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. Drawing 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..". |
Contents
FOREWORD | 5 |
Learning to Speak | 33 |
Participant and Spectator | 97 |
Copyright | |
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activity adolescent adult ALISON aspects become behaviour Bruner called chapter child Clare colour concern course D. J. Enright Daddy egocentric English example expressive fact feeling formulation function George Kelly girl grammar happen human I. A. Richards ideas improvisation individual inner speech JOANNA kind Langer language learning linguistic listening living London look Luria make-believe Martin Buber means monologue mother Mummy objects organization participant role particular past experience Pat-a-cake perhaps Piaget play poem poetry rage for order reading refer relation relationship represent response role of spectator seems sense shoes situation social speech sort sounds speak spectator role speech for oneself stage story suggested Susanne Langer symbols T. S. Eliot talk teacher things thought tion utterance verbal Vygotsky Vygotsky's W. H. Auden words world representation writing