Emerging cognitive skills for writing: Sensitivity to audience presence in five-through nine-year-olds' speech

Cognition and Instruction

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 399-430

  Littleton, Eliza Beth ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0040040162     PISSN: 07370008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s1532690xci1604_2     Document Type: Article

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