Language development: a reader for teachers

Pt. I. Historical Perspectives and Landmark Studies

Children's Language Acquisition / Mable L. Rice

On Inner Speech / Lev Semenovich Vygotsky

Language and Thought of the Child / Jean Piaget

Language and the Mind / Noam Chomsky

Encounter at Royaumont: The Debate Between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky / Howard Gardner

Relevant Models of Language / M. A. K. Halliday

Ian Caught in Infancy / Russell Martin

Myths About Acquiring a Second Language / Katharine Davies Samway and Denise Mckeon

What's Going On? / John Russell Rickford and Russel John Rickford

Lot of Talk About Nothing / Shirley Brice Heath

Crawling on the Bones of What We Know: An Interview with Shirley Brice Heath / Brenda Miller Power

Pt. II. Talk in Schools

Do Teachers Communicate with Their Students As If They Were Dogs? / Lowell Madden

Teacher Research Extension: "You Talk Too Much" / Andi Cunningham

Telling Stories / Tom Newkirk and Patricia McLure

Love of Words / Ralph Fletcher

Ways to Look at the Functions of Children's Language / Gay Su Pinnell

Teacher Research Extension: An Unexpected Lesson in Language / Michelle Schardt

What Should Teachers Do?: Ebonics and Culurally Responsive Instruction / Lisa Delpit

Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk: Researching Oral Language in the Classroom / Karen Gallas, Mary Anton-Oldenburg and Cynthia Ballenger / [et al.]

Research Mind Is Really the Teaching Mind at Its Best: An Interview with Karen Gallas / Susan Harris MacKay

Teacher Research Extension: Focusing on Student Talk / Sherry Young

Examining Teacher Talk: Revealing Hidden Boundaries for Curricular Change / Deborah Rowe

Inquiry Purpose in the Classroom / Judith Wells Lindfors

Pt. III. Sociocultural and Personal Perspectives

Whose Standard? Teaching Standard English / Linda Christensen

American Sign Language: "It's Not Mouth Stuff, It's Brain Stuff" / Richard Wolkomir

Interview with Hang Nguyen / Suzanne Stiel

Narrative, Literacy, and Face in Interethnic Communication / Ronald Scollon and Suzanne Scollon

English Con Salsa / Gina Valdes

Silencing in Public Schools / Michelle Fine

It Begins at the Beginning / Deborah Tannen

Love of Language, A Love of Research, and a Love of Teaching: A Conversation with Deborah Tannen / Ruth Shagoury Hubbard

Teacher Research Extension: "I'm Not Sittin' by No Girl!" / Jill Ostrow

Yada-Yada-Yada: The Babbling Period Between Four and Eight Months of Age / Roberta Michnick Golinkoff and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

Everyone Has an Accent / Walt Wolfram

Linguistic Big Bang / Lawrence Osborne

Life as We Know It / Michael Berube.