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ERIC Number: EJ307262
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1984
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How Feedback from a Listener Affects Children's Referential Communciation Skills.
Sonnenschein, Susan
Developmental Psychology, v20 n2 p287-92 Mar 1984
Investigates how feedback from a listener helps kindergarteners attend to message quality and how such feedback affects speaking and listening skills. Results indicate that kindergarteners learn to assess message adequacy by observing listeners flounder with inadequate messages.(Author/AS)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Auditory Discrimination, Auditory Perception, Communication Skills, Feedback, Kindergarten Children, Language Processing, Learning Strategies, Listening Comprehension, Observational Learning, Primary Education, Receptive Language
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Audience: Researchers
Language: English
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Identifiers: Feedback Systems Analysis; Referential Communication