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Ways with Words:

Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classrooms
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Cambridge University Press, Jul 7, 1983 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 421 pages
Ways with Words is a classic study of children learning to use language at home and at school in two communities only a few miles apart in the south-eastern United States. 'Roadville' is a white working-class community of families steeped for generations in the life of textile mills; 'Trackton' is an African-American working-class community whose older generations grew up farming the land, but whose existent members work in the mills. In tracing the children's language development the author shows the deep cultural differences between the two communities, whose ways with words differ as strikingly from each other as either does from the pattern of the townspeople, the 'mainstream' blacks and whites who hold power in the schools and workplaces of the region. Employing the combined skills of ethnographer, social historian, and teacher, the author raises fundamental questions about the nature of language development, the effects of literacy on oral language habits, and the sources of communication problems in schools and workplaces.
  

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Review: Ways with Words: Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classrooms

User Review  - Melissa - Goodreads

Fascinating ethnography of language acquisition in two North Carolina Piedmont communities in the 1970's. In a way, though, it's still relevant today, and I'm left wondering about the various ways ... Read full review

Review: Ways with Words: Language, Life and Work in Communities and Classrooms

User Review  - Anna - Goodreads

loooved this book. so interesting to read about the different ways children aquire language and how that affects their learning experience when they enter school. (i'm such a nerd.) Read full review

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Contents

Prologue i
1
Note on transcriptions
15
Gettin on in two communities
30
Roadville
31
Trackton
48
Tables
55
Learning how to talk in Trackton
73
Trackton
104
The townspeople
236
Photographs Maps Figures Tables Texts
251
Teachers as learners
265
Learners as ethnographers
315
Epilogue
343
Texts
352
Epilogue 1996
370
Notes
377

Teaching how to talk in Roadville
113
Oral traditions
149
Literate traditions
190

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