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Peer reviewedBeggs, W. D. A.; Howarth, Philippa N. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1985
Suggests that inner speech is a manifestation of the need to prestructure oral utterances. Among the results, inner speech was found to be acquired by normally developing readers between the ages of 8 and 11, and children comprehended text better when certain prosodic features were made visible on the text. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Inner Speech (Subvocal), Oral Reading
