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Young children using language to negotiate their social worlds

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posted on 2017-12-06, 00:00 authored by S 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;

Era Eligible

  • Yes

Number of Chapters

18