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Child and Adolescent Development for Educators, 2/e
Judith Meece, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Student Study Guide by Nancy Defrates-Densch

Language and Literacy Development

Chapter Outline

WHAT IS LITERACY?

SOME BASIC PRINCIPLES OF LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT AND TEACHING

CONTRASTING VIEWS ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

  • Theories of Language Development
  • Reconciling Different Points of View

LEARNING TO COMMUNICATE

  • Language Learning Methods
  • The Critical Period Theory of Language Acquisition
  • Early Stages of Language Acquisition
  • Learning Two Languages
  • Fostering Language Development

LITERACY DEVELOPMENT

  • Emergent Reading and Writing
  • Learning to Read
  • Components of the Reading Process
  • Approaches to Teaching Reading
  • Learning to Write
  • Writing as Composing
  • Literacy Development in the Classroom

CULTURAL INFLUENCES ON LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT

  • Dialects
  • Language and Culture
  • Bilingual Education