Child writers' construction and reconstruction of single sentences and construction of multi-sentence texts: Contributions of syntax and transcription to translation

Reading and Writing

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 151-182

  Berninger, Virginia W ^a   Nagy, William ^b   Beers, Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b SEATTLE PACIFIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Multi sentence composing; Sentence construction; Single sentence composing; Syntactic level of language; Written syntax

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951557651     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-010-9262-y     Document Type: Article

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