Publications

Publication details [#52697]

Botting, Nicola and Lucy Myers. 2008. Literacy in the mainstream inner-city school: Its relationship to spoken language. Child Language Teaching & Therapy 24 (1) : 95–114.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

high school | literacy | reading comprehension | social status | spoken language

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/

Annotation

This study examines what amount of young socio-economically disadvantaged inner-city secondary school students have problems with decoding and reading comprehension and what link there is between spoken language abilities and reading comprehension.