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Shiro, Martha – Language Arts, 1995
Investigates preschoolers' acquisition of oral narrative skills in Venezuela. Finds that, very early on, children from diverse social backgrounds produce narratives that differ in structure and evaluation; that these differences become more marked at the age of five than at the age of four; and that these skills do not follow a single…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Research, Language Skills, Oral Language