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Brown, Garth H. – 1977
In a small informal study of the process of children's writing, three children, aged 9, 10, and 11, were observed as they wrote. Specifically, the study sought to discover how the children approached the task of writing, the manner and extent of their interaction, and the result of this interaction upon their writing. Each child's writing was also…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Creative Writing, Elementary Education
King, Martha L. – 1988
Focusing on language development--from beginning speech to literacy--with particular attention paid to growth in writing, this paper identifies and describes: (1) links between speech and writing; and (2) features of children's written and spoken texts that indicate growth. The process of constructing "texts" is presented as the fabric…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Language Research
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Dyson, Anne Haas; Genishi, Celia – Language Arts, 1982
Presents case studies of two first-grade children, examining their writing as a linguistic and social process that involves the child in an exploration of both oral and written language within the social context of the classroom. (HTH)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Language, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Processes