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The psychology of literacy

Sylvia Scribner and Michael Cole 1981 © The President and Fellows of Harvard College
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  • 9780674721159 (hardcover)
  • 9780674721142 (paper)
  • 9780674433014 (ebook)
Subject
  • African
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Part I / Framing the Questions
    • 1 Writing and Thought (page 3)
    • 2 Schemes and Designs (page 16)
    • 3 Vai People and Their Script (page 23)
  • Part II / Social Context of Literacy
    • 4 Doing the Work (page 37)
    • 5 Survey Goals and Methods (page 48)
    • 6 Literacy and Its Characteristics (page 62)
    • 7 Social Correlates of Literacy (page 88)
  • Part III / Testing Consequences: Developmental Paradigms
    • 8 Does Literacy Substitute for Schooling? (page 113)
    • 9 Literacy and Metalinguistic Knowledge (page 134)
  • Part IV / Testing Consequences: Functional Paradigms
    • 10 Making Sense of Sound and Symbol (page 163)
    • 11 The Written and the Spoken Word (page 187)
    • 12 Communication: Making Meaning Clear (page 200)
    • 13 Studies of Memory (page 221)
    • 14 The Practice of Literacy (page 234)
  • Appendixes
    • Appendix to Chapter 3: History of the Vai Script (page 263)
    • Appendix to Chapter 5: Reading Tests and Questionnaires (page 271)
    • Appendix to Chapter 6: A Technical Note on Literacy Estimates (page 287)
    • Appendix to Chapter 7: Demographic Characteristics and Factor Analysis Procedures (page 290)
    • Appendix to Chapter 8: Further Information about the Survey Tasks (page 298)
    • Appendix to Chapter 9: Forced-Choice Longest-Word Study (page 309)
  • Notes (page 313)
  • Bibliography (page 321)
  • Index (page 331)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
CCC 33.3 (Oct. 1982): 332-333 http://www.jstor.org/stable/357503
LS 12.3 (Sep. 1983): 394-397 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4167438
AE 10.2 (May 1983): 368-371 http://www.jstor.org/stable/643919
SC 215.4539 (Mar. 1982): 1494-1495 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1688145
LAN 59.4 (Dec. 1983): 893-901 http://www.jstor.org/stable/413377
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