Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Unit one: Setting the scene; Unit two: Writing and multimodality; Unit three: Play and talk; Unit four: Early words; Unit five: Communication before language; Unit six: Conclusions: theories about child language development; Bibliography; Index of terms
Summary
From introducing the key theories of language acquisition to children's hand-written stories, with emails and records of babies' first words, this new text explores the language of children from a range of backgrounds and abilities
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-96) and index
