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Peer reviewedWolf, Dennie – Journal of Education, 1985
Investigation of commonalities in children's language across tasks showed that children with literate and oral speech styles made both contrastive and similar types of adaptations when portraying events through play and oral narration. As they moved from playing to narrating, both groups edited more carefully and employed more explicit language.…
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Differences, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education
