Metapragmatic Awareness of Explanation Adequacy: Developing Skills for Academic Success from a Collaborative Communication Skills Unit.

Kaufman, Sheri Skurow; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ487961

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1994

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Metapragmatic Awareness of Explanation Adequacy: Developing Skills for Academic Success from a Collaborative Communication Skills Unit.

Kaufman, Sheri Skurow; And Others

Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, v25 n3 p174-80 Jul 1994

A third-grade classroom participated in a communication skills unit (CSU) designed and implemented collaboratively by a teacher, speech-language pathologist, and student speech-language pathologist. The CSU aimed to increase the students' metapragmatic awareness of explanation adequacy. Students showed significant improvement in ability to rate and justify the adequacy of an explanation. (Author/DB)

Descriptors: Communication Skills, Expressive Language, Grade 3, Interpersonal Communication, Metacognition, Pragmatics, Primary Education, Program Effectiveness, Resource Teachers, Skill Development, Specialists, Speech Therapy

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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