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Hansen, Halvor P. – 1969
This paper suggests that the main reason for the failure of many children to learn to read may be that reading programs often require the child to begin reading before he has developed oral language skills. By 3 years of age the child has acquired almost all the linguistic rules needed to produce basic, or kernel, sentences, which consist of…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Language Instruction, Language Skills, Linguistic Competence