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Publication details [#4455]

Haslett, Beth. 1983. Patterns of teacher/child interaction in preschool settings. In Pietro, Robert J. Di, William Frawley and Alfred Wedel, eds. The first Delaware symposium on language studies: Selected papers. Delaware UP. pp. 347–361.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

classroom conversation | communicative competence, L1-acquisition of | context of L1-acquisition | pre-school age | social context

Annotation

Report of an investigation of communicative interaction in pre-school settings, based on the view that communicative competence acquisition is determined by functions language performs in the social context in which the child lives.