Supporting possible worlds: Transforming literature teaching and learning through conversations in the narrative mode

Research in the Teaching of English

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 10-64

  Miller, Suzanne M ^a   Legge, Sharon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b Arizona Education Association   (United States)

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