What's in a Word? A Review of Young Children's Difficulties with the Construct

Hare, Victoria Chou

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ERIC Number: EJ291210

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Publication Date: 1984

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What's in a Word? A Review of Young Children's Difficulties with the Construct "Word."

Hare, Victoria Chou

Reading Teacher, v37 n4 p360-64 Jan 1984

Points out that children must master a great deal of information about form classes, written conventions, and word referent relationships in order to understand what teachers mean when they use the term "word." (FL)

Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Language Skills, Language Usage, Primary Education, Reading Instruction, Semantics, Word Recognition

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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