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Ways with Words : Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classrooms by Shirley Brice Heath (1983, Trade Paperback)
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Ways With Words : Language, Life, and Work in Communities and Classrooms, Paperback by Heath, Shirley Brice, ISBN 0521273196, ISBN-13 9780521273190, Brand New, Free shipping in the US The author traces language patterns and cultural differences between 'Roadville' and 'Tracton'.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521273196
ISBN-139780521273190
eBay Product ID (ePID)316640
Product Key Features
Number of Pages450 Pages
Publication NameWays with Words : Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classrooms
LanguageEnglish
SubjectTeaching Methods & Materials / Language Arts, Linguistics / General
Publication Year1983
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLanguage Arts & Disciplines, Education
AuthorShirley Brice Heath
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight20.8 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN82-022062
Reviews'Should become a point of reference for all discussions of spontaneous oral story telling.' Harvard Educational Review, ' … captures the elusive nature of effective ethnography: involvement and empathy yield a sound and practical analysis.'Developments in Language Teaching, ' … captures the elusive nature of effective ethnography: involvement and empathy yield a sound and practical analysis.' Developments in Language Teaching, 'Should become a point of reference for all discussions of spontaneous oral story telling.'Harvard Educational Review, ' ... captures the elusive nature of effective ethnography: involvement and empathy yield a sound and practical analysis.' Developments in Language Teaching
Dewey Edition21
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal372.6
Table Of ContentPhotographs, maps, figures, tables, texts; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Note on transcriptions; Part I. Ethnographer Learning: 1. The piedmont: textile mills and times of change; 2. 'Gettin' on' in two communities; 3. Learning how to talk in Trackton; 4. Teaching how to talk in Roadville; 5. Oral traditions; 6. Literate traditions; 7. The townspeople; Part II. Ethnographer Doing: 8. Teachers as learners; 9. Learners as ethnographers; Epilogue; Epilogue - 1996; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
SynopsisWays with Words, first published in 1983, is a classic study of children learning to use language at home and at school in two communities only a few miles apart in the south-eastern United States. 'Roadville' is a white working-class community of families steeped for generations in the life of textile mills; 'Trackton' is an African-American working-class community whose older generations grew up farming the land, but whose existent members work in the mills. In tracing the children's language development the author shows the deep cultural differences between the two communities, whose ways with words differ as strikingly from each other as either does from the pattern of the townspeople, the 'mainstream' blacks and whites who hold power in the schools and workplaces of the region. Employing the combined skills of ethnographer, social historian, and teacher, the author raises fundamental questions about the nature of language development, the effects of literacy on oral language habits, and the sources of communication problems in schools and workplaces., This book, first published in 1983, raises fundamental questions about the nature of language development, the effects of literacy on oral language habits, and the sources of communication problems in schools and workplaces. Heath focuses on two communities, 'Roadville' and 'Tracton', which are only a few miles apart, but the language especially in children are very different.
LC Classification NumberLB1139.L3 H37 1983
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