We don't have language at our house: Disentangling the relationship between phonological awareness, schooling, and literacy

British Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 55-76

  Alcock, K J ^a,b   Ngorosho, D ^b   Deus, C ^b   Jukes, M C H ^b,c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MAKWAMI Project   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; READING; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; TANZANIA;

AWARENESS; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; DATA COLLECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; PHONETICS; READING; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TANZANIA;

EID: 75949088541     PISSN: 00070998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/000709909X424411     Document Type: Article

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