Incidental language acquisition is the language that is learned informally, outside the constraints of the typical classroom, and vocabulary is one of the key elements in language learning and knowledge.
The Biennial Jake Harwood Outstanding Book Award 2024National Communication Association Communication and Ageing Division, Outstanding Book Award 2023This essential volume explores the vital role of communication in the aging process and how this varies for different social groups and cultural communities.
Originally published in 1974, studies of cultural influences on cognition, carried out from a variety of theoretical and methodological stances, were collected for the first time in this volume.
Presenting interventions that are practical, effective, and easy to implement in educational and clinical settings, this book addresses the most frequently encountered emotional and behavioral problems in 3- to 6-year-olds.
The book provides a detailed introduction to a major debate in bioethics, as well as a rigorous account of the role of conscience in professional decision-making.
Dieses Buch richtet sich an alle Frauen und Männer in der pädagogisch-therapeutischen Arbeit, die sich für neue, lebendige und kreative Methoden begeistern können.
The ability to communicate through spoken and written language is one of the defining characteristics of the human race, yet it remains a deeply mysterious process.
This book presents a kaleidoscopic view of the positive layers of ageing as well as key interventions that can help generate and maintain positivity and well-being among the elderly.
Das Unterrichten von Schülerinnen und Schülern mit der Diagnose "Autismus-Spektrum-Störung" (ASS) stellt für Lehrkräfte oftmals eine Herausforderung dar, denn die Besonderheiten der Betroffenen wirken sich sowohl auf lernpsychologische Prinzipien als auch auf das soziale Miteinander im Klassenverband aus.
This informative and easy to read book is an essential resource for parents, teachers, those new to the field, and people on the autism spectrum themselves.
Reflecting the focus of a Jean Piaget Symposium entitled Biology and Knowledge: Structural Constraints on Development, this volume presents many of the emergent themes discussed.
An authoritative, up-to-date guide for psychologists, psychiatrists, pediatricians and other professionals working with vulnerable and at-risk children Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Third Edition is an indispensable resource for psychologists and psychiatrists in training, as well as experienced clinicians who want to stay abreast of important recent developments in the field.
This book addresses what teachers and school leaders from a dozen countries see as the social and emotional strengths, interests and needs of adolescents in their schools and communities; how they innovate their programs and practices to respond to their students' lives.
An Architecture of the Mind proposes a mathematically logical and rigorous theory of lived experience, and a comprehensive and coherent theory of psychology.
The increasing number of people being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) cannot simply be explained by changes in diagnostic criteria or greater awareness of the condition.
How do young people cope with the multitude of difficult situations and scenarios that are associated with growing up, like anxiety and depression, as well as illness, rejection and family breakdown?
Obwohl die weitaus häufigste psychische Erkrankung, die Depression, große Geschlechterunterschiede aufweist, wird »Gender« als zentralem Gesundheitsfaktor bislang weder in der Forschung noch in der Behandlung hinreichend Rechnung getragen.
This volume provides graduate students and experienced researchers with a comprehensive guide to applying qualitative and mixed methods in classroom-based research on second language learning and teaching.
In this new, revised edition of his landmark book, Montagu compels us to reevaluate the way we think about growth and development, in all its phases, throughout life.
Researchers and students in developmental psychology have pointed out that the numerous findings from research about human development seem disconnected and that it is difficult to fit fragmented bits of information together.
This book brings together researchers from different fields, traditions and perspectives to examine the ways in which place and space might (be) unsettle(d).
In this final volume in the series, the contributors attempt to "e;expand the contexts"e; in which child language has been examined crosslinguistically.