Developmental Aspects in Learning to Write

Introduction: Developmental Perspectives on Writing.- Absence, Negation, Impossibility and Falsity in Children's First Writing.- Explicit Teaching and Implicit Learning of Chinese Characters.- On the Interplay of Genre and Writing Conventions in Early Text Writing.- The Development of Graphic Words in Written Spanish what can be learnt from Counterexamples?- Learning the Written Morphology of Plural in Written French.- The Power of Plural.- Talking and Writing: How do Children Develop Shared Meanings in the School Setting?- Written English, Word Processors, and Meaning making a Semiotic Perspective on the Development of Adult Students' Academic Writing.- References.- Author Index.- Subject Index.