Social Construction of Literacy » (REV)

Jenny Cook-Gumperz is Professor in the Gervirtz Graduate School of Education, University of California, Santa Barbara.

A study of how children acquire literacy, viewing literacy acquisition as a socially constructed process.

List of figures     ix
List of tables     x
List of contributors     xi
Preface     xii
Acknowledgments     xv
The social construction of literacy   Jenny Cook-Gumperz     1
Literacy and schooling: an unchanging equation?   Jenny Cook-Gumperz     19
Interactional sociolinguistics in the study of schooling   John J. Gumperz   Jenny Cook-Gumperz     50
The language experience of children at home and at school   Gordon Wells     76
Narrative presentations: an oral preparation for literacy with first graders   Sarah Michaels     110
Differential instruction in reading groups   James Collins     138
Organizational constraints on reading group mobility   Donna Eder     165
Developing mathematical literacy in a bilingual classroom   Douglas R. Campbell     185
Spoken language strategies and reading acquisition   Herbert D. Simons   Sandra Murphy     218
Speaking and writing: discourse strategies and the acquisition of literacy   James Collins   Sarah Michaels     245
The implicit discourse genres of standardized testing: what verbal analogy items require of test takers   MaryCatherine O'Connor     264
References     288
Author index     311
Subject index     313