Ferreiro and Teberosky 1982

Ferreiro and Teberosky 1982

Reference
	Ferreiro, Emilia, and Ana Teberosky. 1982.Literacy before schooling. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. 289 pages. 0435082027. Location: Dallas SIL Library 372.6 F393. Interest level: academic.

Summary
	Presents research developed in an experimental project in Buenos Aires from 1974 to 1976. Extends Piaget's clinical approach to literacy development. Shows teachers how to ask questions to gain greater insights into children's understandings of written language. Suggests "ways of looking at children's responses to understand the strength of their intellectual functioning, thus helping build language arts and reading curricula to facilitate children's development."
	Raises issues about traditional reading and writing instruction in Spanish. Discusses how children cannot benefit from school instruction unless they already have progressed to a certain level of conceptualization.
	Gives basic principles that guided the construction of the experimental design. In beginning reading and writing, emphasizes the importance of the ability to distinguish written language patterns from the common usage of oral language. Recommends providing for dialect differences by allowing children who read out loud, translate what they read into their own dialect.

Evaluation

Does not include information about practical application of research findings. Some that could be derived are the importance of reading to children, filling them with the vocabulary and structures of written language and with ideas beyond their own immediate context of experience, the importance of tracking with the finger in large print books and of teaching orally and visually what a word is, and the importance of linking reading and writing in instruction from the beginning.

Context for this page:

Bibliography module: Ferreiro and Teberosky 1982
In overview module: Bibliography (Literacy): F
In modular book: Bibliography (Literacy), by Doris Gallemore, Trudi C. Hunt, Jeanne Swanson, and Stephen L. Walter
In document collection: Reference materials
In bookshelf: Literacy

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 4.0, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

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