Catherine E. Snow

List of John Benjamins publications in which Catherine E. Snow is involved.

Journal

Narrative Inquiry

Edited by Dorien Van De Mieroop and Allyssa McCabe

ISSN 1387-6740 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9935

Title

The Acquisition of Dutch

Edited by Steven Gillis and Annick De Houwer

In the present-day context of cross-linguistic perspectives on language acquisition, The Acquisition of Dutch offers a much needed overview of the wealth of Dutch child language research that was hitherto lacking. Its comprehensive coverage in terms of topics, its many new theoretical contributions… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 52] 1998. xvi, 444 pp.

Surrain, Sarah, Leslie Duhaylongsod, Robert L. Selman and Catherine E. Snow 2019 Chapter 7. Using narrative thinking in argumentative writing Narrative, Literacy and Other Skills: Studies in intervention, Veneziano, Edy and Ageliki Nicolopoulou (eds.), pp. 151–170 | Chapter

Narrative skills emerge in early childhood and are enhanced by exposure to oral traditions, bookreading, and caregiver questioning. Less is known about how argumentation skills develop, a question of increasing importance given that current standards specify that students should produce written… read more

Snow, Catherine E. 2017 Motivation and engagement in language and literacy development Developmental Perspectives in Written Language and Literacy: In honor of Ludo Verhoeven, Segers, Eliane and Paul van den Broek (eds.), pp. 137–147 | Chapter

In this chapter, I argue that certain facts about early and later first language development, second language learning, and literacy development can only be understood if we acknowledge the role of motivation and engagement. Young children are naturally motivated to engage in the social… read more

Snow, Catherine E. 1998 Preface The Acquisition of Dutch, Gillis, Steven and Annick De Houwer (eds.), pp. ix–xii | Preface

Snow, Catherine E. and Alison Imbens-Bailey 1997 Beyond Labov and Waletzky: The Antecedents of Narrative Discourse Oral Versions of Personal Experience: Three decades of narrative analysis, pp. 197–205 | Article

Beals, Diane E. and Catherine E. Snow 1994 "Thunder Is When the Angels Are Upstairs Bowling": Narratives and Explanations at the Dinner Table Historical Representation, pp. 331–352 | Article

Abstract The domain of narrative is often assumed to be the first extended discourse genre accessible to young children, and a natural mode for representing and remembering information. Ultimately, however, children must move beyond narrative to include other genres within their competency, such as… read more

Blum-Kulka, Shoshana and Catherine E. Snow 1992 Developing Autonomy for Tellers, Tales, and Telling in Family Narrative Events Journal of Narrative and Life History 2:3, pp. 187–217 | Article

Abstract Dinner-table conversations are contexts in which children become socialized to local cultural rules regulating storytelling and may be able to achieve autonomy in telling stories, as tellers of stories, and in the content or tale recounted. Conversations from five American and five Israeli… read more

Snow, Catherine E. 1991 Language Proficiency: Towards a Definition A Case for Psycholinguistic Cases, Appel, Gabriela and Hans W. Dechert (eds.), pp. 63–90 | Article