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We all learn to talk before we learn to read and write. Chapter 6 describes in more detail how children learn to talk. This chapter discusses the principal differences between speech and writing as media for language. That is, we assume that the same language English, underlies talking and writing, listening and reading. Language in this sense is abstract, something we know. When we use it, it must be made concrete, and transmitted and received by one or more of the human senses.
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D. Crystal and D. Davy, *Advanced Conversational English (Longman, 1975).
Michael Stubbs, Language and Literacy (Routledge, 1980 ).
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© 1993 Dennis Freeborn, Peter French, David Langford
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Freeborn, D., French, P., Langford, D. (1993). Spoken English and written English. In: Varieties of English. Studies in English Language series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22723-5_5
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