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The value of speaking with a regional accent is something which is subject to fashion: today, an accent tends to be valued as a mark of individuality in an increasingly mono-cultural and...
| Year published: 1978 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
There are a number of children in New Zealand who, during their pre-school years regularly use a language other than English. They use it at home with their parents, and at play with their...
| Year published: 1977 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In recent years it has become a matter of orthodoxy that language programmes are necessary for children from poor homes and children from minority groups. One of the most influential of all...
| Year published: 1977 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Social-class differences in children's speech and language have attracted a lot of attention in recent years, and a variety of theories have been put forward to explain and describe them. Some...
| Year published: 1977 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article This article considers the important matter of language availability in the lives of babies and children. Without this language availability, knowing, thinking, and expression cannot blossom and...
| Year published: 2018 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: 
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The need to identify students’ language, phonic and alphabet knowledge early on, and to systematically teach those skills in the early years.
Schools need more support from...
| Year published: 2009 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article An examination of a multi-cultural school's community and how it operates, with suggestions for other schools seeking to build a culture of respect as well as promote academic success for all...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article The reading debate seems to moving away from the entrenched positions of "us" versus "them" towards a continuum of process. Teachers in this research were asked to assess three different reading...
| Year published: 1998 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article The principal of Mangere Central School describes his school's transition to multi-age grouping and gives advice for other schools contemplating a change in class structures.
| Year published: 1996 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article An overview of the issues in the whole language versus phonics debate.
| Year published: 1996 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article