Language And Learning: An Interactional Perspective

General Editor’s Preface; Editor’s Introduction Language and Learning: An Interactional Perspective; Language and Learning: An Interactional Perspective; Play and Paradoxes: Some Considerations of Imagination and Language; Beyond Lip-service: Discourse Development after the Age of Nine; Language and Learning in Multi-Ethnic Classrooms: Strategies for Supporting Bilingual Students; Children’s Difficulties in Learning to Compose; Spontaneous and Scientific Concepts: Young Children’s Learning of Punctuation; Language Assessment and Language Teaching: Innovation and Interaction; Socio-Linguistic Development and the Mature Language User: Different Voices for Different Occasions

Gordon Wells, University of Bristol. John Nicholls, University of East Anglia.

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