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Children's Early Decontextualized Talk Predicts Academic Language Proficiency in Midadolescence
Abstract
This study examines whether children's decontextualized talk—talk about nonpresent events, explanations, or pretend—at 30 months predicts seventh‐grade academic language proficiency (age 12). Academic language (AL) refers to the language of school texts. AL proficiency has been identified as an important predictor of adolescent text comprehension. Yet research on precursors to AL proficiency is scarce. Child decontextualized talk is known to be...
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Title
Children's Early Decontextualized Talk Predicts Academic Language Proficiency in Midadolescence
Published Date
Jan 23, 2018
Journal
Volume
90
Issue
5
Pages
1650 - 1663
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