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Schooled Language Competence: Linguistic Abilities in Reading and Writing.
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Perfetti, Charles A.; McCutchen, Deborah – 1986
The notion that a set of restricted-generalized abilities underlies both reading and writing is explored in this essay. Following a definition of schooled language competence (SLC), the first section asserts that knowledge and problem solving are insufficient and nonlinguistic approaches to language competence. The second section focuses on…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Development, Communication Skills, Language Processing