Promoting Academic Competence and Literacy in School: Conference on "Cognitive Research for Instructional Innovation" : Revised Papers - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0125644388 ISBN 13: 9780125644389

Publisher: Academic Press, 1992

Synopsis

Focusing primarily on reading and writing, this book presents summaries of state-of-the-art theory and research dealing with academic competence in school. The editors thoroughly utilize both information-processing and social-collaborative models as interventions. An enlightening final section discusses how this research could better prepare educators to teach reading and writing.
Examines the role of NP-movement vs. lexical rules in accounting for alternations in grammatical functions.

Key Features
* Presents the role of the lexicon in syntactic theory
* Offers debates between major practioners in the field
* Includes the nature of argument and structure
* Examines the relation of argument nature to constituent structure and binding theory

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0125644388
• ISBN 13: 9780125644389
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 506
• Editor: Harris Karen R., Guthrie John T., Pressley Michael