The Psychology of Literacy, Scribner and Cole

Table of Contents

The Psychology of Literacy

Sylvia Schribner and Michael Cole

Part 1 / Framing the Questions

1 Writing and Thought

2 Schemes and Designs

3 Vai People and Their Script

Part II / Social Context of Literacy

4 Doing the Work

5 Survey Goals and Methods

6 Literacy and Its Characteristics

7 Social Correlates of Literacy

Part III / Testing Consequences: Developmental Paradigms

8 Does Literacy Substitute for Schooling?

9 Literacy and Metalinguisitcal Knowledge

Part IV / Testing Consequences: Functional Paradigms

10 Making Sense of Sound and Symbol

11 The Written and the Spoken Word

12 Communication: Making Meaning Clear

13 Studies of Memory

14 The Practice of Literacy

Appendices

Appendix to Chapter 3: History of the Vai Script

Appendix to Chapter 5: Reading Tests and Questionnaires

Appendix to Chapter 6: A Technical Note on Literacy Estimates

Appendix to Chapter 7: Demographic Characteristics and Factor Analysis Procedures

Appendix to Chapter 8: Further Information about the Survey Tasks

Appendix to Chapter 9: Forced-Choice Longest-Word Study

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Photographs showing uses of Vai script, Arabic, and English

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