About this title: Ways with Words is a classic study of children learning to use language at home and at school in two communities only a few miles apart in the south-eastern United States. 'Roadville' is a white working-class community of families steeped for generations in the life of textile mills; 'Trackton' is an African-American working-class community whose ...
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1983
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2006
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2006
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780521273190ISBN:0521273196
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780521273190ISBN:0521273196
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780521273190ISBN:0521273196
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780521273190ISBN:0521273196
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Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9780521273190ISBN:0521273196
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780521273190ISBN:0521273196
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1983
ISBN-13:9780521273190ISBN:0521273196
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"This book is an amazing example of qualitative research. Heath was in the field for 11 years and gathered an unbelievable amount of data from two very different communities in the south--one White and one African American. She observed differences in the use and exposure to language by the children of the communities and then went into classrooms and observed how the differences impacted children during schooling. Her extensive work is to be praised and this book makes all the labor very accessible and enjoyable."
"Another important book for teachers. Heath looks at the way people talk and the literary experiences we have growing up. It's important that those of us who teach in multicultural classrooms realize that talking differently than a "normal white middle class person" isn't talking wrong. And different families, cultures, classes (I could go on and on here) have experienced literature differently and, again, different literary experiences can be learned from, there is not one right way to experience literature."
"I found this book fascinating. It is about how different cultures teach, learn, and value language and the consequences on education. I do not think this book would appeal to everyone and it did lend itself to repetition, but the insight and conclusions were revealing."
"I have certain excerpts and sections of this book printed out from CU's online library. One in particular that any conscientious person, especially one who is planning on having children or just working with them, is a piece called "What No Bedtime Story Means". Heath describes the sociolinguistic teaching methods in an affluent West Virginia family, a lower middle class Appalachian family, and an African American family. What is discovered is crucial to every person's success in American schools; that if a child is not read to, and susequently taught that the two-dimensional thing in the story is a thing in the real world, that they will suffer the ill effects of what she refers to as "the inability to decontextualize". Seriously, read it if you care for humanity."
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