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Publication details [#2280]

Collins, James and Sarah Michaels. 1980. The importance of conversational discourse strategies in the acquisition of literacy. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 6 : 143–156.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
classroom conversation | conversational strategy, L1-acquisition of | family conversation | narrative | oral vs. written | school age

Annotation

Six oral narratives from young school children are examined for evidence of the shift a child has to make from home-based conversational strategies to the more written-like strategies of discursive prose when going to school.