cover next page > title: Oral Language Across the Curriculum author: Corson, David. publisher: Multilingual Matters isbn10 | asin: 090502897X print isbn13: 9780905028972 ebook isbn13: 9780585149738 language: English subject Children--Language, Oral communication, Language arts-- Correlation with content subjects. publication date: 1988 lcc: LB1139.L3C645 1988eb ddc: 372.6 subject: Children--Language, Oral communication, Language arts-- Correlation with content subjects. cover next page > < previous page page_i next page > Page i Oral Language Across the Curriculum < previous page page_i next page > < previous page page_ii next page > Page ii Multilingual Matters Bilingualism: Basic Principles (Second edition) HUGO BAETENS BEARDSMORE Evaluating Bilingual Education: A Canadian Case Study MERRILL SWAIN and SHARON LAPKIN Bilingual Children: Guidance for the Family GEORGE SAUNDERS Language Attitudes Among Arabic-French Bilinguals in Morocco ABDELÂLI BENTAHILA Conflict and Language Planning in Quebec RICHARD Y. 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FITZPATRICK Please contact us for the latest book information: Multilingual Matters, Bank House, 8a Hill Road, Clevedon, Avon BS21 7HH, England. < previous page page_ii next page > < previous page page_iii next page > Page iii Oral Language Across the Curriculum David Corson MULTILINGUAL MATTERS LTD Clevedon · Philadelphia < previous page page_iii next page > < previous page page_iv next page > Page iv British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Corson, David Oral language across the curriculum (Multilingual Matters). 1. Learning 2. Oral Communication 3. Communication in education L Title II Series 370.15'23 LB1060 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Corson. David. Oral language across the curriculum. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Children--Language. 2. Oral communication. 3. Language arts--Correlation with content subjects. L Title. LB1139.L3C645 1987 372.6 87-31512 ISBN 0-905028-97-X ISBN 0-905028-96-1 (pbk) Multilingual Matters Ltd, Bank House, 8a Hill Road, Clevedon, Avon BS21 7HH England. & 242 Cherry Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106-1906, U.S.A. Copyright © 1988 D. Corson. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in writing from the publisher. Cover designed by Jussi Nurmi. Typeset by Photoprint, Torquay, Devon. Printed and bound in Great Britain by Short Run Press, Exeter, EX2 7LW. < previous page page_iv next page > < previous page page_v next page > Page v for Pat, Tim and Beth < previous page page_v next page > < previous page page_ii next page > < previous page page_vii next page > Page vii Contents Preface ix 1 Knowledge, Thought and Language across the Curriculum. 1 3 Language and Education 4 Language and Thought 9 Language, Knowledge and Learning 11 Language Across the Curriculum 14 Summary 2 A Case for Oral Language in Schooling 16 16 Oral Language and Success in Schooling 18 Oral Language and Literacy 22 Oral Language, Intelligence and Problem Solving 22 Oral Language and Thinking 24 Oral Language and the "hypothetical mode of learning" 25 Oral Language, Self and Others: The Real World 26 A Pedagogy Across the Curriculum 28 Summary 3 Oral Language in the First School 29 29 Early Language Acquisition and Development 41 The Teacher's Role in Talk 47 Approaches to Oral Language Development 52 Classroom Organization 54 Evaluation of Oral Language in the First School 55 Across the First School Curriculum 60 Summary 4 Oral Language in the Middle School 61 61 Language and Intellectual Development in the Middle Years 67 Conceptual Development and Schooling < previous page page_vii next page >