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DIALOGUE JOURNAL COMMUNICATION: CLASSROOM LINGUISTIC SOCIAL AND COGNITIVE VIEWS (WRITING RESEARCH VOL 10)
ISBN: 0893914312
ISBN 13: 9780893914318
Author: JANA STATON
Edition: illustrated edition th
Publisher: ABLEX PUBLISHING
Publication Date: Jan 01, 1988
Pages: 338
ISBN 13: 9780893914318
Author: JANA STATON
Edition: illustrated edition th
Publisher: ABLEX PUBLISHING
Publication Date: Jan 01, 1988
Pages: 338
Book Summary
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.
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.
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