Developmental Aspects in Learning to Write

Developmental Perspectives on Writing LILIANA TOLCHINSKY University of Barcelona, Spain The advent of the sixties is considered a crucial moment for the discovery of writing as an object worthy of intellectual inquiry (Havelock, 1986). A number of books,

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STUDIES IN WRITING VOLUME 8

Series Editor: Gert Rijlaarsdam, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Editorial Board: Linda Allal, University of Geneva, Switzerland Eric Esperet, University of Poitiers, France David Galbraith, Staffordshire University, UK Joachim Grabowski, University of Heidelberg, Germany Lucia Mason, University of Padova, Italy Marta Milian, Universitat Autonoma Barcelona, Spain Sarah Ransdell, Florida Atlantic University, USA Liliana Tolchinsky, University of Barcelona, Spain Mark Torrance, University of Derby, UK Annie Piolat, University of Aix-en-Provence, France Pai"vi Tynjala, University of Jyviiskylii, Finland Carel van Wijk, Tilburg University, The Netherlands Kluwer Academic Publishers continues to publish the international book series Studies in Writing, founded by Amsterdam University Press. The intended readers are all those interested in the foundations of writing and learning and teaching processes in written composition. The series aims at multiple perspectives of writing, education and texts. Therefore authors and readers come from various fields of research, from curriculum development and from teacher training. Fields of research covered are cognitive, sociocognitive and developmental psychology, psycholinguistics, text linguistics, curriculum development, instructional science. The series aim to cover theoretical issues, supported by empirical research, quantitative as well as qualitative, representing a wide range of nationalities. The series provides a forum with research from established researchers, with contributions of young researchers.

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Learning to Write Edited by

Liliana Tolchinsky

Associate Professor Department of Linguistics. University of Barcelona, Spain

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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION : DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVES ON WRITING Liliana Tolchinsky ABSENCE, NEGATION, IMPOSSIBILITY AND FALSITY IN CHILDREN'S FIRST WRITING Clotilde Pontecorvo & Franca Rossi

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EXPLICIT TEACHING AND IMPLICIT LEARNING OF CHINESE CHARACTERS Lily Chan & Terezinha Nunes

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ON THE INTERPLAY OF GENRE AND WRITING CONVENTIONS IN EARLY TEXT WRITING Ana Sandbank

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THE DEVELOPMENT OF GRAPHIC WORDS IN WRITTEN SPANISH What can be learnt from counterexamples? Liliana Tolchinsky & Concha Cintas

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LEARNING THE WRITTEN MORPHOLOGY OF PLURAL IN WRITTEN FRENCH Michel Fayol &