Directiveness in Teachers' Language Input to Toddlers and Preschoolers in Day Care

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 43, Issue 1-5, 2000, Pages 1101-1114

  Girolametto, Luigi ^a   Weitzman, Elaine ^b   Van Lieshout, Riet ^a   Duff, Dawna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Hanen Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Day care; Directiveness; Language input; Teacher child interaction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DAY CARE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REPRODUCIBILITY; TEACHING;

CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TEACHING; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0034304681     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/jslhr.4305.1101     Document Type: Article

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