Children Into Pupils Rle Edu I

Download or read book Children into Pupils (RLE Edu I) written by Mary Willes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes work in the field of sociolinguistics easily accessible to working teachers and to teachers in training. It focuses on the crucial first weeks that children spend in school, and deals with talk as a joint production, in which teachers and pupils are engaged from the earliest stages of the educational process. Using a variety of research methods and observations, Mary Willes captures the reality of what goes on in the classroom, and describes how young children develop both linguistic and cognitive skills in this social context. In addition, she examines classrooms where teachers have to find ways of interacting with young speakers of a mother tongue other than English.