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Professor Catherine Snow FBA

Factors affecting the development of language skills in monolingual and multilingual children, the relation of language skills to literacy development, instructional activities that support critical thinking, argumentation, academic language and perspective-taking
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Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2024
Honours
FBA
Sections
Education
Website
https://www.gse.harvard.edu/directory/faculty/catherine-snow

Current post

Harvard Graduate School of Education John and Elisabeth Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education

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