Characteristics of academic language register occurring in caretaker-child interaction: Development and validation of a coding scheme

Language Learning

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1173-1221

  Aarts, Rian ^a   Demir, Serpil ^a   Vallen, Ton ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Academic language; Bilingualism; Caretaker child interaction; Language acquisition; Preschool; Systemic functional linguistics; Turkish

Indexed keywords

EID: 80855123480     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2011.00664.x     Document Type: Article

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