The Meaning Makers traces the language and literacy development of a large, representative sample of children from age 1 to 10, quoting liberally from observations made at home and at school. Setting the findings of the study in the context of recent research, it offers suggestions for improving children's opportunities for learning.
This, the first full-length study by members of the Bristol Study of Language Development research team, is a fundamental study of language development from infancy to primary school. The model presented here will be of interest to a wide range of sociologists, psychologists and educationalists, as well as linguists.
The Bristol Study of Language Development has assembled a corpus of data on the language development of children aged one to five years and of the situations in which their spontaneous speech was recorded. In this book Gordon Wells presents a detailed account of the common sequence of development.
The Meaning Makers traces the language and literacy development of a large, representative sample of children from age 1 to 10, quoting liberally from observations made at home and at school. Setting the findings of the study in the context of recent research, it offers suggestions for improving children's opportunities for learning.
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