Means to an End: Children's Knowledge of Directives during the Elementary School Years.

Liebling, Cheryl Rappaport

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Publication Date: 1988

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Means to an End: Children's Knowledge of Directives during the Elementary School Years.

Liebling, Cheryl Rappaport

Discourse Processes, v11 n1 p79-99 Jan-Mar 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 the elementary years. (JK)

Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Research, Cross Sectional Studies, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Oral Language, Skill Development, Speech Acts, Verbal Development

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Language: English

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