Publications

Publication details [#52705]

Loukusa, Soile, Anneli Yliherva, Raija Väisänen, Amanda Pyper and Irma Moilanen. 2009. Development of communication skills in Finnish pre-school children examined by the Children's Communication Checklist (CCC). Child Language Teaching & Therapy 25 (2) : 235–249.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communicative competence | gender | pragmatic competence | pre-school age | testing

Language as a subject

Finnish

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/

Annotation

This study employs the Children's Communication Checklist (CCC) to explore the (gendered) communicative competence of normally developing Finnish pre-school children aged 3 to 6. It is argued that children's development of pragmatic skills may evolve differently across languages and cultures.