books by Kathy Hirsh-Pasek     books:       Breaking the Language Barrier: An Emergentist Coalition Model of Word Learning (Monographs of the Society for ... George Hollich, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, ... Wiley-Blackwell, 2000 How do children learn their first words? The field of language development has been polarized by responses to this question. Explanations range from accounts that emphasize the importance of cognitive heuristics in language acquisition, to those that highlight the role of "dumb attentional mechanisms" in word learning. This monograph offers an alternative to these accounts. A hybrid view of word-learning, called the emergentist coalition theory, ...             Action Meets Word: How Children Learn Verbs Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnik Golinkoff Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 Words are the building blocks of language. An understanding of how words are learned is thus central to any theory of language acquisition. Although there has been a surge in our understanding of children's vocabulary growth, theories of word learning focus primarily on object nouns. Word learning theories must explain not only the learning of object nouns, but also the learning of other, major classes of words - verbs and adjectives. Verbs ...             Cómo hablan los bebés1 review Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek Oxford University Press, 2001 Why I should read this book. Un libro único !! Este es un excelente libro que describe el desarrollo del lenguaje desde el vientre materno hasta los 4 años. Es uno de los libros más serios que existen en lengua castellana y resume en forma sencilla, los descubrimientos más recientes en los laboratorios de desarrollo de lenguaje. El libro representa un esfuerzo no solo en traducción, sino en adaptación a la adquisición del castellano. Es un ...             How Babies Talk: The Magic and Mystery of Language in the First Three Years of Life10 reviews Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek Dutton Adult, 1999 An outstanding and credible book I found this book extraordinarily helpful in understanding and tracking my daugher's learning. I gained three valuable insights from this book: (1) a clearer understanding of how language acquisition occurs (2) specific examples of how I can assist my child with the language acquisition process (3) a valuable insight to how much my daughter can understand prior to her ability to communicate it. ...             Celebrate the Scribble: Appreciating Children's Art1 review Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Ph.D, ... VSP Books, 2007 A Mom's Choice Awards Recipient! The Mom's Choice Awards® honors excellence in family-friendly media, products and services. An esteemed panel of judges includes education, media and other experts as well as parents, children, librarians, performing artists, producers, medical and business professionals, authors, scientists and others. A sampling of the panel members includes: Dr. Twila C. Liggett, Ten-time Emmy-winner, ...             The Journey to Parenthood: Myths, Reality and What Really Matters8 reviews Diana Lynn Barnes, Leigh G. Balber Radcliffe Publishing, 2007 Finally, a book that REALLY prepares you for parenthood! There are a zillion parenting books out there, but this is one you should buy. It's a great mix of stories from real expectant and new parents - not just the cheery ones who claim everything is perfect! - and research on issues that arise when you're becoming a parent. It's fun to read about people's expectations going into parenthood, and then the reality of their "journeys to parenthood." A ...             Einstein Never Used Flash Cards: How Our Children Really Learn-- And Why They Need to Play More and Memorize ...37 reviews Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, ... Rodale Books, 2003 Child Development and Learning (for Dummies) The book title alone shows that the authors are not interested in sound bites on CNN or FoxNews. Contains very practical tips for parents. Many parents (and teachers, guardians, babysitters, etc.) of young children will enjoy the tips and greatly benefit from reading this book. It dispels many myths about teaching children, their behavior, their potential. Among the myths busted are the ...             Academic Instruction in Early Childhood: Challenge or Pressure? (New Directions for Child and Adolescent ...1 review Leslie Rescorla, Marion C. Hyson Jossey-Bass Inc Pub, 1991 Simply Amazing This is an amazing book by means of child linguistics. I am a college professor at Florida University where I teach child phsycology. Not only does Rescorlo look beneath the surface of development from One to three, she goes beyond to inform the reader of other linguistics. I want to see Rescorlo write a popular press book in the near future. I recomend this book to anyone interested in ...             The Origins of Grammar: Evidence from Early Language Comprehension (Language, Speech, and Communication)2 reviews Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff The MIT Press, 1999 It is a breakthrough book by the means of child development "THE ORIGINS OF GRAMMAR presents a synthesis of work done by the authors, using ... the intermodal preferential looking paradigm, which can be used to assess lexical and syntactic knowledge in children as young as thirteen months of age. In addition to drawing together their ground-breaking empirical work, the authors use these results to describe a theory of language learning that emphasizes ...             Einstein Never Used Flash Cards : How Our Children Really Learn - and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize ... Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Diane Eyer Roberta Michnick Golinkoff Fine Communications, 2008 From the Publisher: Children don't come with instruction manuals, but sometimes it seems like everyone has an opinion on how to make your child into a mini-Einstein. A winner of a Books for a Better Life award, this book sifts through years of developmental research to give you a clear message: learning really happens through playtime. As the authors explain how to make the best of your time with your child, they show you how to practice ...             Play = Learning: How Play Motivates and Enhances Children's Cognitive and Social-Emotional Growth Oxford University Press, USA, 2006 Why is it that the best and brightest of our children are arriving at college too burned out to profit from the smorgasbord of intellectual delights that they are offered? Why is it that some preschools and kindergartens have a majority of children struggling to master cognitive tasks that are inappropriate for their age? Why is playtime often considered to be time unproductively spent? In Play=Learning, top experts in child development and ...             Einstein Never Used Flash Cards : How Our Children Really Learn - and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize ... Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Diane Eyer Roberta Michnick Golinkoff Fine Communications, 2008 From the Publisher: Children don't come with instruction manuals, but sometimes it seems like everyone has an opinion on how to make your child into a mini-Einstein. A winner of a Books for a Better Life award, this book sifts through years of developmental research to give you a clear message: learning really happens through playtime. As the authors explain how to make the best of your time with your child, they show you how to practice ...              search for books academic, adolescent, appreciating, breaking, celebrate, challenge, childhood, children, coalition, cognitive, communication, comprehension, development, directions, einstein, emergentist, emotional, enhances, evidence, instruction, language, learning, memorize, monographs, motivates, parenthood, pressure, research, scribble, social-emotional books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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