Language And Learning: Importance of Speech in Children's Development - Softcover

Britton, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140154833 ISBN 13: 9780140154832

Publisher: Penguin, 1992

Synopsis

From the moment children first speak and attach a sound to an object or a person, language plays a significant and central part in their development. Their speech is, of course, a means of communication - and yet the emphasis in this book is on the importance of speech, not to their listeners, but to themselves. It shows, for example, that much of children's behaviour consists of doing what they have told themselves to do - that the world they see and act in is a world largely called into existence by words of their own speaking.

About this title

About the Author:

JAMES BRITTON is Emeritus Professor of Education, University of London. He is the author of Language and Learning (Penguin), and a selection of his essays, Prospect and Retrospect (Boynton/Cook), was published in 1982. He has also published several books for children.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0140154833
• ISBN 13: 9780140154832
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 336