Voices from the Frontier: What Teachers Must Learn about Children's Language.

Torbe, Mike

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ERIC Number: EJ329505

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Publication Date: 1985

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Voices from the Frontier: What Teachers Must Learn about Children's Language.

Torbe, Mike

Highway One, v8 n3 p23-33 Fall 1985

Discusses the importance of teachers' awareness of students' backgrounds and cultures and cites research conducted in Great Britain by B. Tizard and M. Hughes and in the United States by S. Heath to support this belief. (DF)

Descriptors: Child Language, Educational Research, Middle Class, Social Characteristics, Social Class, Social Differences, Socioeconomic Influences, Student Behavior, Student Characteristics, Teacher Improvement, Teacher Student Relationship, Working Class

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Information Analyses

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Language: English

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