"Nice things get said": Corpus evidence and the national literacy strategy

Literacy

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 22-28

  Sealey, Alison ^a   Thompson, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corpus linguistics; Key Stage 2; National Literacy Strategy; Primary; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644902916     PISSN: 17414350     EISSN: 17414369     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9345.2006.415.x     Document Type: Article

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