<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> This paper is an outline of Grace Wales Shugar’s research approach and some of her main theses in the field of language acquisition and children’s discourse. Her idea of dual agentivity of adult-child interaction shows how to best support children’s communicative skills: It is only when children can show what they know in their own way, and when that child knowledge is received and used in a discourse process, that we can expect a child’s inner motivation to acquire knowledge from others to be maintained and to become a driving force of the child’s further development (Shugar, 1995, p. 233).</p></abstract>

This paper is an outline of Grace Wales Shugar’s research approach and some of her main theses in the field of language acquisition and children’s discourse. Her idea of dual agentivity of adult-child interaction shows how to best support children’s communicative skills: It is only when children can show what they know in their own way, and when that child knowledge is received and used in a discourse process, that we can expect a child’s inner motivation to acquire knowledge from others to be maintained and to become a driving force of the child’s further development (Shugar, 1995, p. 233).

In Memory of Professor Grace Wales Shugar: Introduction to the Special Issues on “Children’s Language and Communicative Knowledge”

University of Warsaw University of Social Sciences and Humanities

Psychology of Language and Communication

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This paper is an outline of Grace Wales Shugar’s research approach and some of her main theses in the field of language acquisition and children’s discourse....

In Memory of Professor Grace Wales Shugar: Introduction to the Special Issues on “Children’s Language and Communicative Knowledge”

Published Online: Aug 28, 2014

Page range: 79 - 86

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/plc-2014-0007

Keywords
children’s language, meaning potential, action discourse, topical discourse, action situation, reference situation, dual agentivity situation

© by Barbara Bokus

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

In Memory of Professor Grace Wales Shugar: Introduction to the Special Issues on “Children’s Language and Communicative Knowledge”

Published Online: Aug 28, 2014

Page range: 79 - 86

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/plc-2014-0007

Keywordschildren’s language, meaning potential, action discourse, topical discourse, action situation, reference situation, dual agentivity situation

© by Barbara Bokus

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Keywords
children’s language, meaning potential, action discourse, topical discourse, action situation, reference situation, dual agentivity situation