Learning through language : towards an educationally informed theory of language learning /
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Nonie K. Lesaux
- 1. Learning through language / Vibeke Grøver, Paola Uccelli, Meredith L. Rowe and Elena Lieven
- 2. Input, interaction and learning in early language development / Elena Lieven
- 3. Infants want input / Paul L. Harris
- 4. Learning more than language through language during early childhood / Meredith L. Rowe
- 5. Food For Thought: Turning everyday family practices into opportunities to develop rich language and literacy abilities in Latino children / Diana Leyva and Lauren Skorb
- 6. Theory- and evidence-based language learning and teaching for young children: Promoting interactive talk in the classroom / Young-Suk Grace Kim and Joonmo Yun
- 7. The relationship between early childhood development and later elementary school performance in Chile / Andrea Rolla, Macarena Alvarado, Bernardo Atuesta, Marcela Marzolo, Ernesto Trevino, Hirokazu Yoshikawa and MaryCatherine Arbour
- Discussion: Reflections on learning through language from infancy to preschool and early elementary school years / Ageliki Nicolopoulou
- 8. Learning the language for school literacy: Research insights and a vision for a cross-linguistic research program / Paola Uccelli
- 9. Observational research on vocabulary and comprehension in upper elementary school classrooms / Rebecca D. Silverman and Anna M. Hartranft
- 10. Improving struggling readers' literacy skills through talk about text / Lowry Hemphill, James Kim and Margaret Troyer
- 11. Classroom conversations as support for vocabulary learning: Examining teacher talk as input for student learning / Evelyn Ford-Connors and Catherine O'Connor
- 12. Measurement of reading comprehension processing and growth / Gina Biancarosa
- Discussion 1: Time, complexity, and the enduring importance of words: Key themes in language learning in the middle years / P. David Pearson
- Discussion 2: The road -via education- to humane social relationships is driven by language (and literacy) / Robert L. Selman
- 13. Young bilinguals' extended discourse skills: The role of perspective-taking / Vibeke Grøver
- 14. How does vocabulary instruction during book reading help Chinese young minority children learn vocabulary in two languages? / Si Chen
- 15. Young monolingual and bilingual children's exposure to academic language as related to language development and school achievement: the DASH-project / Paul P. M. Leseman, Lotte F. Henrichs, Elma Blom and Josje Verhagen
- 16. Cross-linguistic relations among bilingual and biliterate learners / C. Patrick Proctor and Qianqian Zhang-Wu
- 17. Pushing the limits: Dual language proficiency and reading development in the U.S. and Canada / Yuuko Uchikoshi and Stefka H. Marinova-Todd
- Discussion 1: Bilingualism as action / Sara Rutherford-Quach and Kenji Hakuta
- Discussion 2: Multilingualism and socioeconomic development / Robert A. LeVine
- Afterword: So much progress, so much left to do / Catherine E. Snow.