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Download full textOrtony, Andrew; And Others – 1985
To discover whether increased exposure to and understanding of figurative uses of language would result in improved performance on a metaphorical language comprehension test, gains were measured on a figurative language test that was administered twice, approximately four months apart, to a total of 319 elementary school children in Harlem, New…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Concept Formation, Creative Writing, Elementary Education
