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Peer reviewedFerreiro, Emilia; Pontecorvo, Clotilde – Language and Education, 2002
Examines the difficulties children face in word segmentation in early writings. Rules about word separation have evolved over many years and are ow normative in the languages these children are trying to write: Italian, Portuguese, Spanish. Children were asked to write a story well-known in all three cultures. Quantitative analysis was done of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Italian, Language Acquisition, Portuguese
Peer reviewedFerreiro, Emilia; Pontecorvo, Clotilde – Learning and Instruction, 1999
Studied the use of punctuation in children's early writings in connection with organization of the text. Collected 134 stories of second graders written in Spanish, Portuguese, or Italian. Children tried to make sense of writing conventions, including the use of punctuation, and some tried to distinguish the functions of punctuation marks. (SLD)
Descriptors: Childrens Writing, Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Grade 2
