Re: mock linguistic play
Ellice A Forman (ellice+ who-is-at pitt.edu)
Tue, 12 Dec 1995 13:11:51 -0500 (EST)
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