Language Function: An Introduction to Pragmatic Assessment and Intervention for Higher Order Thinking and Better Literacy

by Ellyn Lucas Arwood

Literacy teaching tends to take a structural approach to language, focusing on auditory products or skills such as sounds, morphemes, words, sentences, and vocabulary. However, new research suggests that the majority of English speakers actually think and learn in visual concepts, and that there is a cultural and linguistic mismatch between auditory teaching methods and the way students think and learn. This has important implications for all educators...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849058008
• ISBN13: 9781849058001
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.6" x 10.0"