Promoting Academic Competence and Literacy in School

Michael Pressley

ISBN 10: 0125644388 / ISBN 13: 9780125644389

Published by Emerald Publishing Limited, GB, 1992

About this Item

Focusing primarily on reading and writing, this book presents summaries of state-of-the-art theory and research dealing with academic competence in school. The editors thoroughly utilize both information-processing and social-collaborative models as interventions. An enlightening final section discusses how this research could better prepare educators to teach reading and writing. It examines the role of NP-movement vs. lexical rules in accounting for alternations in grammatical functions. It presents the role of the lexicon in syntactic theory. It offers debates between major practitioners in the field. It includes the nature of argument and structure. It examines the relation of argument nature to constituent structure and binding theory.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Promoting Academic Competence and Literacy in School
• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, GB
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0125644388
• ISBN 13: 9780125644389
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 937 grams

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Synopsis

Focusing primarily on reading and writing, this book presents summaries of state-of-the-art theory and research dealing with academic competence in school. The editors thoroughly utilize both information-processing and social-collaborative models as interventions. An enlightening final section discusses how this research could better prepare educators to teach reading and writing. It examines the role of NP-movement vs. lexical rules in accounting for alternations in grammatical functions. It presents the role of the lexicon in syntactic theory. It offers debates between major practitioners in the field. It includes the nature of argument and structure. It examines the relation of argument nature to constituent structure and binding theory.