Literacy in the mainstream inner-city school: Its relationship to spoken language

Child Language Teaching and Therapy

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 95-114

  Myers, Lucy ^a   Botting, Nicola ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Disadvantage; Language; Literacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 40749141224     PISSN: 02656590     EISSN: 14770865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265659007084570     Document Type: Article

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