School success in the 21st century requires proficiency with expository discourse -- the use and understanding of informative language in spoken and written modalities. This occurs, for example, when high school students read their textbooks and listen to their teachers' lectures, and later are asked to demonstrate their knowledge of this complex topic through oral reports and essay examinations.

Although many students are proficient with the expository genre, others struggle to meet these expectations. This book is designed to provide information on the use and understanding of expository discourse in school-age children, adolescents, and young adults. Recently, researchers from around the world have been investigating the development of this genre in typical students and in those with language disorders. Although many books have addressed the development of conversational and narrative discourse, by comparison, books devoted to the topic of expository discourse are sparse.

This crossdisciplinary volume fills that gap in the literature and makes a unique contribution to the study of language development and disorders. It will be of interest to a range of professionals, including speech-language pathologists, teachers, linguists, and psychologists who are concerned with language development and disorders.

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Series Foreword
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1. Overview of Expository Discourse: Development and Disorders
2. Comprehension Processes for Expository Text: Building Meaning and Making Sense
3. Explaining Complex Matters: How Knowledge of a Domain Drives Language
4. The Development of Multimodal Explanations in French Children
5. The Language of Expository Discourse across Adolescence
6. Linguistic Complexity in School-Age Text Production: Expository versus Mathematical Discourse
7. Expository Discourse in School-Age Children and Adolescents with Language Disorders: Nature of the Problem
8. Assessing Expository Texts Produced by School-Age Children and Adolescents
9. Reading Comprehension and Expository Text Structure: Direction for Intervention with Adolescents
10. Expository Discourse Intervention: Helping School-Age Children and Adolescents with Language Disorders Master the Language of the Curriculum
11. Expository Discourse in Older Children and Adolescents with Traumatic Brain Injury
Appendix: Answers to Study Guide Questions
Author Index
Subject Index

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