Conversations about literature outside classrooms: How adults talk about books in their book clubs

Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 180-186

  Smith, Michael W ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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