Adult literacy and language levels in the classroom

[donovanb]

I think Geoffrey Williams has done some research in this area. I know his PhD
was literacy pedagogy with very young children and I think it included
parents. I'll find references at home and e-mail them tomorrow. His research
was done from a Systemic Functional Linguistic framework.

Brian Donovan
School of Education,
Trinity College,
Dublin, 2,
Ireland.

e-mail: donovanb at tcd.ie

>===== Original Message From Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
<khirshpa at nimbus.ocis.temple.edu> =====
>  A colleague of ours wrote a paper on the
>> relationship between the literacy level of childcare workers and the
childcare
>> worker¹s language stimulation in the classroom.   This in turn plays out in
>> the children¹s language input and their subsequent school readiness.  Is
there
>> any literature that talks about the relationship between teacher/ caregiver
>> adult literacy levels and their language abilities/ stimulation?   Kathy