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Title:
Children's peer talk : learning from each other
Publication Information:
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014
Physical Description:
xii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781107017641

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Inside and outside the classroom, children of all ages spend time interacting with their peers. Through these early interactions, children make sense of the world and co-construct their childhood culture, while simultaneously engaging in interactional activities which provide the stepping stones for discursive, social and cognitive development. This collection brings together an international team of researchers to document how children's peer talk can contribute to their socialization and demonstrates that if we are to understand how children learn in everyday interactions we must take into account peer group cultures, talk, and activities. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in the fields of language acquisition, sociolinguistics, pragmatics and discourse analysis, and related disciplines. It examines naturally occurring talk of children aged from three to twelve years from a range of language communities, and includes ten studies documenting children's interactions and a comprehensive overview of relevant research.


Table of Contents

1 Children's peer talk and learning: uniting discursive, social and cultural facets of peer interaction. Editors' introductionAsta Cekaite and Shoshana Blum-Kulka and Vibeke Grøver and Eva Teubal
Part I Children's Peer Talk and Extended Discourse
2 'Now I said that Danny becomes Danny again' - a multifaceted view of kindergarten children's peer argumentative discourseSara Zadunaisky Ehrlich and Shoshana Blum-Kulka
3 Narrative performance, peer group culture and narrative development in a preschool classroomAgeliki Nicolopoulou and Carolyn Brockmeyer Cates and Aline de Sá and Hande Ilgaz
4 'Let's pretend you're the wolf!' - the literate character of pretend play discourse in the wake of a story EstherVardi-Rath and Eva Teubal and Hadassah Aillenberg and Teresa Lewin
5 Explanatory discourse and historical reasoning in children's talk: an experience of small group activityCamilla Monaco and Clotilde Pontecorvo
6 Evaluation in pre-teenagers' informal language practices around texts from popular cultureJanet Maybin
Part II Children's Peer Talk and Second Language Learning
7 Peer interaction, framing and literacy in preschool bilingual pretend playAmy Kyratzis
8 Metasociolinguistic stance taking and the appropriation of bilingual identities in everyday peer language practicesEvaldsson Ann-Carita and Sahlström Fritjof
9 'Say princess' - the challenges and affordances of young Hebrew L2 novices' interaction with their peersShoshana Blum-Kulka and Naomi Gorbatt
10 Language play, peer group improvisations and L2 learningAsta Cekaite and Karin Aronsson
11 The potentials and challenges of learning words from peers in preschool. A longitudinal study of second-language learners in NorwayVeslemøy Rydland and Vibeke Grøver and Joshua Lawrence
12 What, when and how do children learn from talking with peers?Katherine Nelson