Learning About Punctuation (Language & Education Library) - Hardcover

Hall, Nigel; Robinson, Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1853593222 ISBN 13: 9781853593222

Verlag: Multilingual Matters, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

This timely book is the first ever to address the issues associated with how people, and especially children, make sense of punctuation. The first chapter offers a detailed overview of some of the major issues. In Chapters 2, 3 and 4 the authors offer accounts of how children develop understanding of punctuation. Chapter 5 deals with teachers' experiences of, attitudes towards, and beliefs about the teaching and learning of punctuation. Chapter 6 contains a detailed analysis of one lesson in which punctuation was the main feature and explores its consequences for the children's use of punctuation in their writing. In Chapter 7 the author examines how a deaf child learned to punctuate and raises important issues about the relationship between oral language and punctuation. Chapter 8 contains a rare account of how young children use punctuation when reading. Finally, Chapter 9 offers an account of the problems of adult basic writers; difficulties which have a strong relationship with those faced with young writers.

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Nigel Hall is a Reader in Literacy Education and Anne Robinson is a lecturer in the Didsbury School of Education at the Manchester Metropolitan University. Together they direct `The Punctuation Project' and both authors are known internationally for their books on early literacy, especially early writing.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Multilingual Matters
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1853593222
• ISBN 13: 9781853593222
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 184
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