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Nippold, Marilyn A.; Ward-Lonergan, Jeannene M. – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2010
Argumentative writing is a challenging communication task that calls upon sophisticated cognitive and linguistic abilities. Pre-adolescents (n = 80; mean age = 11;10; range = 10;6-13:5) were asked to write an argumentative essay on the controversial topic of training animals to perform in circuses. Additionally, they were asked to solve a set of…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Phonemic Awareness, Adolescents, Logical Thinking