Researching Language and Literacy in Social Context

by Graddol, David; Maybin, Janet; Stierer, Barry

• ISBN13: 9781853592218
• ISBN10: 1853592218
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-11-22
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Table of Contents

Preface
Sources
Introduction
Introducing Ethnography	p. 1
The Relations between Researcher and Researched: Ethics, Advocacy and Empowerment	p. 18
Observing and Recording Talk in Educational Settings	p. 26
Negotiation as a Criterial Factor in Learning to Read in a Second Language	p. 49
Through Whose Eyes? Exploring Racism through Literature with White Students	p. 62
'I Treat Them All The Same': Teacher-Pupil Talk in Multi-ethnic Classrooms	p. 82
Reading as a Social Process in a Middle School Classroom	p. 100
Children's Voices: Talk, Knowledge and Identity	p. 131
Gender Inequalities in Classroom Talk	p. 151
Unequal Voices: Gender and Assessment	p. 168
No Gap, Lots of Overlap: Turn-taking Patterns in the Talk of Women Friends	p. 177
Cultural Values in Samish and Australian Children's Literature: A Corpus Linguistic Approach	p. 193
Roles, Networks and Values in Everyday Writing	p. 205
Index	p. 224
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