Playful Texts and the Emergent Reader - Developing metalinguistic awareness - Anne Plummer
Language play and nonsense
Playful Texts and the Emergent Reader - Developing metalinguistic awareness - Anne Plummer
Anne Plummer [+]
After working for Australian State and Federal governments in environmental protection and social policy, Anne Plummer changed direction to qualify as a teacher with the Association Montessori Internationale. She has worked extensively with children in primary classrooms and individually. Her research interests include Montessori grammatics, children’s literature, and the ontogenesis of literary reading.
Description
Places language play at the centre of parent-child interaction, and demonstrates that it is crucial for language learning. Shows how children’s phonological play makes way for more complex forms of play with structure and semantics. Examines the most radical form of linguistic play, literary nonsense, and focuses on its obsession with list-making and classification.