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Means to an End: Children's Knowledge of Directives during the Elementary School Years.
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Liebling, Cheryl Rappaport – Discourse Processes, 1988
Examines elementary school-aged children's knowledge of directives. Presents findings of cross-sectional research which contrasted first-, third-, and fifth-grade students' comprehension, production of, and reasoning about directives varying in degree of explicitness. Indicates that children's knowledge of directives continues to develop during…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Research, Cross Sectional Studies, Elementary Education