The cradle of culture and what children know about writing and numbers before being taught / Liliana Tolchinsky.
"In this new book, Liliana Tolchinsky shows that children treat writing and numerals as distinct even before they have received any formal training on the topic, and she argues that preliterate children's experiences with writing and numerals play an essential and previously unsuspected ro...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Mahwah, N.J. :
L. Erlbaum Associates,
2003.
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| Series: | Developing mind series.
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| Summary: | "In this new book, Liliana Tolchinsky shows that children treat writing and numerals as distinct even before they have received any formal training on the topic, and she argues that preliterate children's experiences with writing and numerals play an essential and previously unsuspected role in children's subsequent development. On this view, learning about notations such as writing is not just a matter of acquiring new instruments for communicating existing knowledge. Rather, there is a continual interaction between children's understanding of the features of a notational system and their understanding of the corresponding domain of knowledge. The acquisition of an alphabetic writing system transforms children's view of language, and the acquisition of a formal system of enumeration transforms children's understanding of numbers."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | xxxiv, 256 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-240) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0805838430 9780805838435 0805844848 9780805844849 |