Variation in Instructional Discourse Features: Cultural or Linguistic? Evidence from Inuit and Non-Inuit Teachers of Nunavik

Anthropology and Education Quarterly

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 396-419

  Eriks Brophy, Alice ^a   Crago, Martha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 0347600380     PISSN: 01617761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aeq.2003.34.4.396     Document Type: Review

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