Editor: Viv Edwards (University of Reading, UK)
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Volume: 13 Number: 3 Page: 178–193
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Young Children's Use of Graphic Punctuation
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Nigel Hall
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This report, based upon a two-year study of one group of children in a classroom environment, focuses upon an early period of writing development in which many 'unconventional' punctuation behaviours occur.
It describes a range of types of unconventional punctuation and assigns to them a common underlying principle, that of using punctuation according to graphic principles rather than linguistic principles
as is the case in conventional punctuation. The report identifies and examines a range of factors which have a significant influence on both the adoption and persistence of graphic punctuation: teacher
language, models of punctuation in children's books, the comprehensibility of graphic principles relative to linguistic principles; teachers' responses to children's punctuation, and the dominance of visuality
in early literacy learning.
© Multilingual Matters 1999
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