The acquisition of literacy: Reframing definitions, paradigms, ideologies, and practices

Author(s): Jalongo, Mary Renck; Fennimore, Beatrice S.; Stamp, Laurie Nicholson;
Date Issued: 2004
Publisher(s): Information Age Publishing
Description: A discussion of a contextual theory of literacy acquisition, which views literacy as related to an individual's construction of self and environment
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Editor(s): Saracho, Olivia N.; Spodek, Bernard
Source: In Contemporary perspectives on language policy and literacy instruction in early childhood education (pp. 57-78). Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.
Topics: Children & Child Development > Child Development & School Readiness > Early Literacy

Children & Child Development > Special Needs Children & Special Child Populations > Native Language
ISBN: 1-59311-120-7 : Unspecified
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