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Publication details [#35268]

Biber, Douglas. 1991. Oral and literate characteristics of selected primary school reading materials. Text 11 (1) : 73–96.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

children's book | communicative function | primary school | reading

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0165-4888

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.de/journals/order/en.start.html

Annotation

This paper analyzes features of primary school written texts, which, though not related to readability per se, but associated with a variety of communicative functions, appear to be important to the children's reading experiences.