Writing Development : an interdisciplinary view.

Writing Development : an interdisciplinary view.

This volume presents a selection of papers presented at a series of three workshops organized by the Network "Written Language and Literacy" as launched by the European Science Foundation. The main topics making up Writing Development are: (1) Writing and literacy acquisition: Links betwee...

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Main Author: Pontecorvo, Clotilde
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1997.
Subjects:
Language acquisition.
Written communication.
Literacy.
Language acquisition
Literacy
Written communication
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Table of Contents:
  • WRITING DEVELOPMENT: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY VIEW; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; ESF remit; Authors' affiliations; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Introduction. Studying writing and writing acquisition today A multidisciplinary view; PART I. Writing and literacy acquisition: Links between linguistics and psycholinguistics; On the relations between speech and writing; The Unit in Written and Oral Language; The Word Out of (Conceptual) Context; Preschool Knowledge of Language: What Five year olds Know about Language Structure and Language Use.
  • Explicit Word Segmentation and Writing in Hebrew and SpanishPART II. Writing and reading in time and culture; Orality/Literacy, Languages and Alphabets. Examples from Jewish Cultures; The Notion of Orthography. A Latin Inheritance; Aspectsof a History of Written Language Processing. Examples from the Roman world and the early Middle Ages; Orality in Literate Cultures; The Graphic Space of the School Exercise Books in France in the 19th-20th century; PART III. Written language competence in monolingual and bilingual contexts.
  • Productionand Comprehension of Connectives in the Written Modality. A Study of Written FrenchTowards a Better Understanding of Biliteracy; Acquisition of Literacy by Immigrant Children; PART IV. Writing systems, brain structures and languages: A neurolinguistic view; Domain-Specificity and Fractionability of Neuropsychological Processes in Literacy Acquisition; Reading Difficulties among English and German Children: Same Cause
  • Different Manifestation; Neural Organisation and Writing Systems; BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES; Analytic index.

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