Young children using language to negotiate their social worlds
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posted on 2017-12-06, 00:00authored byS Danby, Christina Davidson
Within the early years, the importance of children's language is diminished when it is understood only as speaking and listening skills. This oversight ignores the central role that language plays in the social worlds of children. This chapter examines transcripts of children's naturally occurring talk from home, early childhood and primary settings. In demonstrating how children routinely use language to organise their social and literacy activities, we show that they contribute competently to their social worlds.
Funding
Category 1 - Australian Competitive Grants (this includes ARC, NHMRC)
History
Editor
Makin L; Diaz CJ; McLachlan C
Start Page
118
End Page
132
Number of Pages
15
ISBN-10
0729537838
Publisher
MacLennan & Petty/Elsevier
Place of Publication
Sydney, NSW
Open Access
No
External Author Affiliations
Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Education; Queensland University of Technology;