How and when does the ability to give and understand explanations develop? Morag Donaldson directly addresses this question in the present study, providing evidence from a series of imaginative experiments she carried out with 3- to 10-year-olds. In contrast to many earlier accounts, she demonstrates that children can distinguish between cause and effect and among physical, psychological and logical relations well before the age of 7.
A five-level series of children's grammar books with bright and lively grammar practice to be used alongside any primary course. KEY FEATURES * The grammar is presented in topics which are carefully selected to reflect children's interests * The pages which follow the main presentation give a wide variety of exercises in which children practise the vocabulary in context * Children can work through the units systematically or in any chosen order, with consolidation and further practice given in review units throughout the course * The separate Answer Key booklet also includes photocopiable tests
The popular notion of how children come to speak their first language is that their parents teach them words, then phrases, then sentences, then longer utterances. Although there is widespread agreement amongst linguists that this account is wrong, there is much less agreement as to how children really learn language. This revised edition of Ray Cattell's bestselling textbook aims to give readers the background necessary to form their own views on the debate, and includes accessible summaries of key thinkers, including Chomsky, Halliday, Karmiloff-Smith and Piaget.
