Re: mock linguistic play

Gordon Wells (gwells who-is-at oise.on.ca)
Tue, 12 Dec 1995 15:28:33 -0500 (EST)

Point taken. But why is it, I wonder, that the "teaching" approach to
joint bookreading spills over into the parent-child interactions rather
than the "parenting" approach spilling over into the classroom?

Gordon

On Tue, 12 Dec 1995, Ellice A Forman wrote:

> Gordon Wells notes the similarity between the joint book reading
> activities of the "townspeople" in Heath's (1983) study and their
> children and teacher-student interactions. Gordon, you might be
> interested in learning that the sample of townspeople studied by Heath in
> that study were all primary grade teachers with young children (see page
> 392 in her 1983 book, Ways with Words). So the similarity between
> mother-child book reading and teacher-child book reading was built into
> the sample from the beginning.
> Ellice Forman
> University of Pittsburgh
>
>