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Snow, Catherine E. – Harvard Educational Review, 1983
Drawing upon recent research findings and upon a case study of a child learning to talk and to read, the author outlines the important similarities in the development of both language and literacy. The characteristics of parent-child interaction which support language acquisition--semantic contingency, scaffolding, accountability procedures, and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Delayed Speech, Language Acquisition