This article discusses classroom conditions that support the co-creation of dialogic space--where our different ideas and perspectives are in conversation with others such that we might take in what other people are saying and be open to it affecting our thinking. Drawing on ethnographic case study data, we provide context to illustrate ways this…

Teachers must learn to accept the fact that variation in language is part of the communicative competence of a linguistically mature individual. (RC)

This article discusses the language acquisition of children and how language causes anxiety in school. (RC)

This article presents a wholistic picture of the major factors in the language learning process. (RC)

Helping children develop effective language use in school environments requires that as much attention be given to function as to the form and structure of language. (RC)

This article discusses five theories on the relationship between language and thought. (RC)

This article describes a set of protocol materials which illustrates concepts in language acquisition. (RC)

This paper focuses upon the deaf as an American Sign Language-using community, out of the English-using mainstream. (RC)

This article discusses the desirability of advancing problem readers to the meaning-extraction stage of true reading by reading animated captions added to material such as cartoons, pantomime, and silent movies. (RC)

Author offers a way of viewing cognitive development that will engender some possible answers'' in early childhood education more consistent with human and humane development. (Author/CB)