Searching for a book for very new students of child language

[Roberta Golinkoff]

"How Babies Talk: THe Magic and Mystery of Language in the First Three Years
of Life" might be useful to you!  About L1 acquisition with little
experiments they can try.
Roberta Golinkoff

On 5/7/08, Tom Roeper <roeper at linguist.umass.edu> wrote:
>
> Dear Ken,   Barbara Pearson was kind enough to mention my book--The Prism
> of Grammar: How Child Language Illuminstes Humanism.   It is
> indeed intended for teachers and those actually  dealing with
> children, for the most part.
>    And if you or they find it of use---I would welcome feedback on
> how the various explorations for children go and what varients
> people think of.
>
> best, Tom Roeper
>
> On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 5:08 PM, Ken Reeder <ken.reeder at ubc.ca> wrote:
>
> >
> > I've been given a nice opportunity to develop a hybrid course at UBC
> > at freshman or sophomore (1st/2nd yr) level entitled "Child Language
> > Development." What is particularly interesting (for me at any rate) is
> > that my students will be child care workers with minimal educational
> > background, and that they are all working with aboriginal preschool
> > children in British Columbia's southern interior. I'm searching for
> > good introductory and short books in two (perhaps overlapping) areas:
> > first language acquisition, and heritage language maintenance/
> > bilingualism. While the latter will probably be handled by way of
> > Multilingual Matters' fine materials, I'm still searching for just the
> > right title in first language acquisition. I'd like it to be a highly
> > readable translation of our best current understandings in the field
> > and manageable for these students. A tall order? Any suggestions?
> >
> > Glad to summarize your responses here if this fine discussion tool
> > doesn't already do so. Thanks, all.
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Tom Roeper
> Dept of Lingiustics
> UMass South College
> Amherst, Mass. 01003 ISA
> 413 256 0390
>
> >
>


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Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Ph. D.
H. Rodney Sharp Professor
School of Education and Departments of Psychology and Linguistics
University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716
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