Learning to Talk

Dr Gee Macrory is a former teacher and advisory teacher and Principal Lecturer in the Faculty of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University. She has extensive experience of teacher education in the field of primary and secondary modern foreign languages, bilingualism and early language development.

• Part I – introductory conceptsChapter 1: Learning to talk: how do they do it?Chapter 2: Talking about talkPart II – typical language developmentChapter 3: Early monolingual language development – 0-5Chapter 4: Later language development – 5-11Part III – learning more than one languageChapter 5: The bilingual child: simultaneous bilingualismChapter 6: The bilingual child: consecutive bilingualismPart IV – atypical language developmentChapter 7: Atypical language development- sensory, cognitive and social impairmentsChapter 8: Developmental language disorder

Excellent introduction to how children learn to talk, essential for early years practitioners