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SUPPORTING GRAMMATICAL DEVELOPMENT

SELECTED READINGS

 

Brandone, A. C., Salkind, S. J., Golinkoff, R. M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2006). Language development. In G. G. Bear & K. M. Minke (Eds.), Children’s needs III: development, prevention, and intervention. (pp. 499–514). Washington D.C.: National Association of School Psychologists.

Derewianka, B. (2011) A new grammar companion for primary teachers. Newtown (Sydney): Primary English Teaching Association Australia.

Downing, A. & Locke, P. (2006). English grammar: a university course (2nd Ed.). London: Routed.

Fish, S. (2011). How to write a sentence: and how to read one. New York: HarperCollins Publishers.

Halliday, M. A. K. (1989). Spoken and written language. London: Oxford University Press.

Halliday, M. A. K. (1993). Towards a language-based theory of learning. Linguistics and Education, 5(2), 93 – 116.

Halliday, M. A. K. & Matthiessen, M. I. M. (2004). An introduction to functional grammar (3rd Ed). London: Hodder Education.

Lightbown, P. M., & Spada, N. (2006). How languages are learned (3rd ed.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Martin, J. (1985) Language, register and genre. In F Christie, (ed) Children writing course reader. Geelong: Deakin.

Humphrey, S., Droga, L., and Feez, S. (2012) Grammar and meaning: new edition.  Newtown (Sydney): Primary English Teaching Association Australia. 

Nordmann, A. (2005). Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: an introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

O’Dwyer, B. (2000). Modern English structures: form, function and position. Ontario: Broadview Press.

Rossbridge, J. and Rushton, K. (2010) Conversations about texts 1: teaching grammar using literary texts. Newtown (Sydney): Primary English Teaching Association Australia. 
 
Rossbridge, J. and Rushton, K. (2011) Conversations about texts 2: teaching grammar using literary texts. Newtown (Sydney): Primary English Teaching Association Australia.  

Tomasello, M. (2000). The item-based nature of children’s early syntactic development. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 4(4), 153 – 163.

Tomasello, M. (2003). Constructing a language: a usage-based theory of language acquisition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Wells, G. (2009). The meaning makers: Learning to talk and talking to learn (2nd Edition). Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.

Williams, J. & Colomb, G. (2010). Style: lessons in grace and clarity (10th Ed.). New York: Longman. 

Wittgenstein, L. (2001). Tractatus logico-philosophicus. London: Routledge