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Enhancing children's communication skills : idioms 'fill the bill'

G.G. Abkarian

Colorado State University

Alison Jones

Colorado State University

Gretchen West

Colorado State University

This paper discusses the importance of idioms to communicative competence, and their comprehension among unimpaired children. It also deals with systems for differentiating idioms, and suggests activities for teaching idioms to language-impaired children.

Child Language Teaching and Therapy, Vol. 6, No. 3, 246-254 (1990)
DOI: 10.1177/026565909000600302
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