Search Type
  • All
  • Subject
  • Title
  • Author
  • Publisher
  • Series Title
Search Title

Download

Learning to Read and Write

A Cross-Linguistic Perspective

Learning to Read and Write( )
Editor: Harris, Margaret
Hatano, Giyoo
Contribution by: Hatano, Giyoo
Butterworth, George
Fischer, Kurt W.
Greenfield, Patricia M.
Harris, Paul
Stern, Daniel
Series title:Cambridge Studies in Cognitive and Perceptual Development Ser.
ISBN:978-0-521-02718-2
Publication Date:Jun 2006
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $44.99
Book Description:

Brings a unique cross-linguistic perspective to our understanding of how children learn to read and write in different languages and scripts which vary from each other in important ways. It includes chapters on the speed with which children learn to read and spell and the strategies they adopt when learning.

Book Details
Pages:264
Detailed Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Psycholinguistics / Language Acquisition
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.889 x 8.853 x 0.702 Inches
Book Weight:0.867 Pounds
Author Biography
(Editor)
Daniel Stern is the author of nine novels, and three other story collections. In 1990 Stern's Twice Told Tales won the Rosenthal Foundation Award given by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He's been at various times in his working life a professional cellist, a professor at Wesleyan University, head of advertising for Warner Bros. Motion Pictures and for CBS Entertainment, and director of humanities at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. He is currently Cullen Distinguished Professor English in the creative writing program at the University of Houston.

010



Featured Books

Pretty Baby
Kubica, Mary
Paperback: $18.99
The Great Gatsby
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Hardback: $20.00
Legacy
Blackstock, Uché
Hardback: $28.00

Rate this title:

Select your rating below then click 'submit'.






I do not wish to rate this title.