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Publication details [#66957]

Aldridge-Waddon, Michelle. 2019. Police delivery of the opt-out procedure for children’s court evidence: evidence of inadequate language awareness. Language Awareness 28 (3) : 166–185.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
child | child witnesses | courtroom | courtroom conversation | discourse | information processing | interview | language awareness | police interview
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Journal WWW
www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

it is suggesed that introducing language awareness into police-child interview training could be empowering for officers. With greater control over the impact of their discourse, officers could materially improve the quality of the opt-out procedure for children’s court evidence delivery.