Social contexts of learning literate language the role of varied, familiar, and close peer relationships

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 375-389

  Pellegrini, A D ^a,b   Melhuish, Edward ^c   Jones, Ithel ^d   Trojanowska, L ^b   Gilden, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperation; Literacy; Mutualism; Oral language; Reciprocal altruism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037537421     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1041-6080(02)00044-4     Document Type: Article

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