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Download full textMcKenna, Anne – 1977
This speech, presented at the 1977 meeting of the World Organization of Preschool Education (OMEP), proposes that the preschool linguistic environment determines language facility, which affects later school and work success. The normal course of communicative ability is traced. It is proposed that although most children, in and out of preschool,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Language, Intellectual Development, Language Acquisition
