Gender and teachers' rating of linguistic skills among second-grade schoolchildren

Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 28-34

  Luotonen, Mirja ^a   Uhari, Matti ^a   Uhari, Marja ^a   Aitola, Lempi ^a   Lukkaroinen, Aino Maija ^a   Luotonen, Jukka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Gender; Linguistic skills; Teacher ratings

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TEACHING;

CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX FACTORS; TEACHING;

EID: 0031606940     PISSN: 10217762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000021449     Document Type: Article

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