Contextual variation, familiarity, academic literacy, and rural adolescents' idiom knowledge

Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 69-79

  Qualls, Constance Dean ^a   O'Brien, Rose M ^a,b   Blood, Gordon W ^a   Hammer, Carol Scheffner ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Chatham County Schools   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Context; Idiom comprehension; Literacy; Rural

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037276639     PISSN: 01611461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/0161-1461(2003/007)     Document Type: Article

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