Excerpts from the original Research Base for the Oral Language Acquisition Inventory and Oracy Instructional Guide:
"Measuring oral language acquisition when literacy is taught is critical because testing and retesting children without evaluating their growth in language and incorporating the results in teaching both limits and can damage their motivation to learn..."
"Reading and writing are language activities so it is vital for teachers to have a clear understanding of how language develops. Teachers should know and be able to identify the most common structures of English, understand how these structures are acquired, and how to use the results of assessment to link language and literacy instruction..."
An updated research base appears in the OLAI 2, Chapter 6 and references.
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