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More About This Title Understanding Language and Literacy Development: Diverse Learners in the Classroom
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Understanding Language and Literacy Development: Diverse Learners in the Classroom offers effective supporting strategies to address the cultural and linguistic diversity of students in contemporary classrooms.
- Discusses learners with different linguistic abilities—infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence—by suggesting effective ways to reach them based on their strengths and needs
- Emphasizes language and literacy supporting strategies in a variety of everyday classroom settings
- Includes activities and questions to motivate readers to think and develop their own perspectives on language and literacy development
- Considers a variety of different language acquisition experiences, including monolingual, multilingual, and language impairment
- Discusses different types of literacies, including digital and hypertext
- Connects language and literacy development to identity and motivation to contextualize learning styles for pre-service teachers
- Supported by a companion website that includes additional resources such as PowerPoint presentations by chapter and a summary of relevant information from the Common Core K–12 English Language Arts Standards
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Detailed Contents vii
Acknowledgments xix
About the Companion Website xx
About the Book 1
Part I Introduction 13
1 Working with Diverse Students: Some Important Issues 15
2 Complex Factors That Influence Language Acquisition and Literacy Development 33
Language Sample Analysis I 60
Part II Developing Language and Emergent Literacies: Divergent Abilities in Infancy and Early Childhood (Birth to 5) 63
3 Acquiring One Linguistic System: First Language Acquisition 65
4 Acquiring More Than One Linguistic System: Multilingual First Language Acquisition 111
5 Acquiring First Language(s) with Difficulties 143
Language Sample Analysis II 177
Part III Developing Language and Literacies: Divergent Abilities in Middle Childhood (6–11) 181
6 Typical Development of Language and Literacies in Middle Childhood 183
7 Learning a New Language in Middle Childhood 224
8 Language Impairment in Middle Childhood 259
Language Sample Analysis III 282
Part IV Developing Language and Literacies: Divergent Abilities in Adolescence (12–18) 289
9 Typical Development of Language and Literacies in Adolescence 291
10 Learning English As a New Language in Adolescence 320
11 Language Impairment in Adolescence 354
Language Sample Analysis IV 369
Part V Theoretical Perspectives on Language and Literacy Development and Learning 375
12 Theories That Explain Language Acquisition and Literacy Development 377
Exit Self-Evaluation 405
Appendix: Examples of Standardized Language Assessments 408
Glossary 410
References 423
Index 448