Bibliography

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References (selected)

Biber, Douglas, Randi Reppen & Susan Conrad. 2002. Developing linguistic literacy: perspectives from corpus linguistics and multi-dimensional analysis. Journal of Child Language 29(2), 458–62.

Gorman, Tom, Janet White, Greg Brooks & Fiona English. 1991. Language for learning: A summary report on the 1988 APU surveys of language performance vol. Assessment matters; no.4 (Great Britain. Department of Education and Science. Assessment of Performance Unit.). [London]: School Examinations and Assessment Council. Evaluation and Monitoring Unit [SEAC EMU].

Massey, Alf, Sylvia Green, Trevor Dexter & Lisa Hamnett. 2003. Comparability of national tests over time: KS1, KS2 and KS3 standards between 1996 and 2001. Final report to QCA. Cambridge: UCLES.

Nini, Andrea. 2015. Multidimensional Analysis Tagger (Version 1.3). http://sites.google.com/site/multidimensionaltagger

Rashid, Sammy & Greg Brooks. 2010. The levels of attainment in literacy and numeracy of 13- to 19-year-olds in England, 1948–2009. London: National Research and Development Centre for Adult Literacy and Numeracy. http://dera.ioe.ac.uk/id/eprint/21953

Reppen, Randi. 1994. Variation in elementary student language: A multidimensional perspective. PhD dissertation, Northern Arizona University. ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (accessed 23/09/2013).

Reppen, Randi. 2004. Academic language: an exploration of university classroom and textbook language. In Ulla Connor & Thomas A. Upton (eds.), Discourse in the professions, 65–86. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Sealey, Alison & Paul Thompson. 2004. ‘What do you call the dull words?’ Primary school children using corpus based approaches to learn about language. English in Education 38(1), 80–91.

Sealey, Alison & Paul Thompson. 2006. ‘Nice things get said’: Corpus evidence and the National Literacy Strategy. Literacy 40(1), 22–8.