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The Language of Children by Julia Gillen is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Language of Children about?
From introducing the key theories of language acquisition to children's hand-written stories, with emails and records of babies' first words, this new text explores the language of children from a range of backgrounds and abilities. Content: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Unit one: Setting the scene; Unit two: Writing and multimodality; Unit three: Play and talk; Unit four: Early words; Unit five: Communication before language; Unit six: Conclusions: theories about child language development; Bibliography; Index of terms. Abstract: From introducing the key theories of language acquisition to children's hand-written stories, with emails and records of babies' first words, this new text explores the language of children from a range of backgrounds and abilities
Who reads The Language of Children?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Julia Gillen
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780415286206
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Linguistics, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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