Recensione:
For those interested in empirical analysis of discourses produced by adolescents from different cultural and socio-economic backgrounds, this book provides rich material about language use by Italian and immigrant youth. Each one of the three theoretical approaches (those of Vygotsky, Bernstein, and Halliday) of course has its own rich interpretative literature, but their juxtaposition in Castelnuovo's book helps to identify those prominent aspects and lacunae that reveal themselves only via systematic comparison. The socio-cultural methodology offered by the author will also be used for further analysis of each one of the above approaches. --Alex Kozulin Academic Coordinator, International Department, Feuerstein Institute, Jerusalem
This book is not restricted to the realms of theory as the stated aim of the writer is to study developmental patterns which may be helpful in informing pedagogy, and so we have here the account of an empirical research project in which real data and actual language use in the classroom are gathered. Rather like the sampling of water from a river by plunging in a test tube, we get a sample which is full of micro-elements in a medium which is a rich and complex context, full of variables, contextual variation and trace elements of sociocultural diversity. --Alison Duguid University of Siena-Italy
Antonella Castelnuovo has produced an important contribution to our understandings of the complex relations between cognition, language, learning, and social interaction dynamics in the complex world of the multicultural classroom. Her analyses illuminate the often problematic relations between pupils and the linguistic and other demands of the classroom. A timely and relevant intervention of interest to classroom practitioners and theorists alike! --Paul J. Thibault Professor of Linguistics and Communication Studies, University of Agder, Norway
L'autore:
Antonella Castelnuovo currently teaches Linguistic and Cultural Mediation at Sapienza University of Rome. She received her PhD from the University of London. Her recent publications include Giochi di ruolo e formazione interculturale (2007) and Vygotsky and Bernstein in the Light of the Jewish Tradition (with B. Kotik, 2015).
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