Interactional Ethnography: An Approach to Studying the Social Construction of Literate Practices

Linguistics and Education

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 353-400

  Castanheira, Maria Lucia ^a   Crawford, Teresa ^a   Dixon, Carol N ^a   Green, Judith L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0006808462     PISSN: 08985898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0898-5898(00)00032-2     Document Type: Article

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