Publications

Publication details [#30354]

Allison, P., R. Beard and J. Willcocks. 2002. Subordination in Children's Writing. Language & Education 16 (2) : 97–111.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | language proficiency | school | subordinate clause | writing

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0950-0782

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper explores and discusses the use of subordinate clauses in different writing tasks in a class of 7 to 9 year old children. The importance of developing subordination in writing is related to previous research and to evidence from school inspections.