Dialogue Journal Communication: Classroom, Linguistic, Social, and Cognitive Views (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780893914318)

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.

Author: Jana Staton,Roger W. Shuy,Joy Kreeft Peyton
ISBN-10: 0893914312
ISBN-13: 9780893914318
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1988
Pages: 352
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.73d