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Playful Punctuation in Primary Children's Narrative Writing
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Andrew Burrell; Roger Beard – Research Papers in Education, 2024
Framed within the fields of applied linguistics and language play, the writing of three attainment groups of 9-11-year-old children was used to investigate their use of ludic (playful) punctuation in the composition of an imaginative narrative. The scripts were from a larger repeat-design study of writing development that addressed a range of…
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Punctuation, Narration, Childrens Literature