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Erika Hoff's LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT, 4th Edition communicates both the content and the excitement of this quickly evolving field. By presenting a balanced treatment that examines all sides of the issues, Hoff helps readers understand different theoretical points of view -- and the research processes that have lead theorists to their findings. After an overview and history of the field, Hoff thoroughly covers the biological bases of language development and the core topics of phonological, lexical, and syntactic development. She also provides in-depth discussions of the communicative foundations of language, the development of communicative competence, language development in special populations, childhood bilingualism, and language development in the school years. No library descriptions found. |
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a) my students are using it, and they are all getting good grades (the class average is currently sitting at like 77%, and I know I'm an indulgent marker but that ain't all me), and they're smart and all and I don't want to take away from that but I have also seen them cannily referring to the textbook, in their assignments and even in class!
b) I am teaching this stuff, per above, but I took the course for mercenary motives not because it's my area; I'm no kind of expert in most of it--with the exception of phonology and sort of theories of acquisition (though in my case it's more like "history of theories of acquisition"). Acq. of morphosyntax, acq. of pragmatics, acq. of semantics, bilingual and L2 acq., all mysterious and scary to me. Now slightly less so, and Hoff has provided me with a reliable sidearm that has gotten me through a zombie-filled term.
c) so as for the intellectual-history stuff that is my area, and the more science/technology studies (an opposed to the philosophy/natural-history and Marxist/anti-imperialist angles of my thesis) critique I am hoping to develop of acquisition studies and the way they conceptualize the speaking or unspeaking human, I can definitely imagine referring to this book early and often. It's super good on the big picture.
I think this amounts to an endorsement. ( )