Dialogue Journal Communication: Classroom, Linguistic, Social, and Cognitive Views Contributor(s): Staton, Jana (Author), Shuy, Roger W. (Author), Peyton, Joy Kreeft (Author) |
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ISBN: 0893914312 ISBN-13: 9780893914318 Publisher: Praeger OUR PRICE: $54.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1988 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Communication Studies - Education | Elementary - Business & Economics |
Dewey: 372.6 |
LCCN: 87027885 |
Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.09 lbs) 352 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The thesis of this volume is that writing done by students who control their own topics, who have genuine purposes for writing, and have a real, known audience, is quite different and valuable in its own right. It forms a rich source of information about how young students think, manage their social interactions, and use language with competence to get things done. By selecting dialogue journal writing as a corpus for analysis, it is possible to observe children's communicative competence in using written language purposefully, apart from their ability to master a particular form of writing. The central argument is that dialogue journal communication represents a kind of personal literacy, prior to and more comprehensive than the particular literacies emphasized and assessed in schools. The contents include a practitioner's view of the practice itself and a summary of the research study methods developed to analyze interactive written conversations. |