Research Currents: What Is a Context for Learning through Language?.

Genishi, Celia

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Publication Date: 1984

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Research Currents: What Is a Context for Learning through Language?

Genishi, Celia

Language Arts, v61 n1 p52-58 Jan 1984

Presents a variety of social contexts for verbal interaction between adult and child and between children. Discusses the variations in interaction caused by different contexts, as well as features that are consistent across contexts. (HTH)

Descriptors: Child Language, Elementary Education, Interaction, Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Competence, Language Patterns, Language Research, Language Usage, Sociolinguistics

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Language: English

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