Dialogic inquiry around information texts: The role of intertextuality in constructing scientific understandings in urban primary classrooms

Linguistics and Education

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 435-482

  Pappas, Christine C ^a   Varelas, Maria ^a   Barry, Anne ^b   Rife, Amy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b Jungman Elementary School   (United States)

^c Alexander Hamilton Elementary School   (United States)

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EID: 3342909210     PISSN: 08985898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0898-5898(03)00004-4     Document Type: Article

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