Promoting Academic Competence and Literacy in School
Michael Pressley (Editor), Karen R. Harris (Editor), John T. GuthrieBooks.org participates in affiliate programs including Bookshop.org and the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. We may earn a commission from qualifying purchases made through links on this page, at no additional cost to you.
Synopsis
Focusing primarily on reading and writing, this book presents summaries of state-of-the-art theory and research dealing with academic competence in school. The editors thoroughly utilize both information-processing and social-collaborative models as interventions. An enlightening final section discusses how this research could better prepare educators to teach reading and writing.
Examines the role of NP-movement vs. lexical rules in accounting for alternations in grammatical functions.
Key Features
* Presents the role of the lexicon in syntactic theory
* Offers debates between major practioners in the field
* Includes the nature of argument and structure
* Examines the relation of argument nature to constituent structure and binding theory
Booknews
Evolving out of a conference on "Cognitive Research for Instructional Innovation" sponsored by the Center for Educational Research and Development, College of Education, U. of Maryland at College Park, and held in May 1990, this volume comprises 17 contributed chapters that address contemporary knowledge of literacy development in classrooms and challenges to be met if theoretical and research-based understandings are to be translated into practice. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)