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Understanding Language and Literacy Development
Diverse Learners in the Classroom

Xiao-lei Wang (Author)

9780470674291, Wiley

Hardback, published 14 October 2014

480 pages
25.2 x 18 x 2.8 cm, 0.875 kg

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

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

Subject Areas: Education [JN]
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