Writing Development: An interdisciplinary view

This volume presents a selection of papers presented at a series of three workshops organized by the Network “Written Language and Literacy” as launched by the European Science Foundation. The main topics making up Writing Development (1) Writing and literacy Links between speech and writing , with contributions by David R. Olson, Claire Blanche-Benveniste, Emilia Ferreiro, Ruth Berman, Liliana Tolchinsky & Ana Teberosky; (2) Writing and reading in time and culture , with contributions by Collette Sirat, Françoise Desbordes, Harmut Günther, Peter Koch, & Jean Hé (3) Written language competence in monolingual and bilingual contexts , with contributions by Michel Fayol & Serge Mouchon, Georges Lüdi, & Ludo Verhoeven; (4) Writing systems, brain structures and A neurolinguistic view , with contributions by Giuseppe Cossu, Heinz Wimmer & Uta Frith, & Brian Butterworth. The volume heads off with an extensive introduction “Studying writing and writing acquisition A multidisciplinary view”.