Publications

Publication details [#39794]

Howe, Christine and Donna McWilliam. 2004. Enhancing Pre-schoolers' Reasoning Skills: An Intervention to Optimise the Use of Justificatory Speech Acts During Peer Interaction. Language & Education 18 (6) : 504–524.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

justifying | peer group | pre-school age | reasoning | speech act

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study demonstrates that pre-schoolers' production of justificatory speech acts during peer interaction in non-conflictual contexts, can be effectively enhanced via a cooperative intervention programme.