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Burrell, Andrew; Beard, Roger – Education 3-13, 2018
There has been little research into 'language play', the manipulation of language for enjoyment, in children's narrative writing. The unprompted language play of 36 children was investigated in their writing of an imaginative story. The sample comprised three attainment sub-groups from a larger repeat-design quantitative study of writing…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Language Usage, Imagination, Elementary School Students