Language of Children

<p>The Intertext series has been specifically designed to meet the needs of contemporary English Language Studies. <em>Working with Texts: A Core Introduction to Language Analysis</em> (second edition 2001) is the foundation text which is complemented by a range of 'satellite' titles. These provide students with hands-on practical experience of textual analysis through special topics and can be used individually or in conjunction with <em>Working with Texts</em>.<br><em>The Language of Children</em>: </p><ul> <li>introduces the key theories of language acquisition and provides a historical overview of the subject </li> <li>looks at all the ways children learn to communicate from writing and talking to playing and using computers </li> <li>includes a wide variety of real texts and data from records of childrens first words to children's hand-written stories and emails </li> <li>explores the language of children from a range of backgrounds and abilities including deaf and bilingual children </li> <li>is user-friendly and accessible and provides a full glossary.</li> </ul>