‘what do you call the dull words?' Primary school children using corpus-based approaches to learn about language

English in Education

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 80-91

  Sealey, Alison ^a   Thompson, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electronic corpus; Grammar; Learning about language; NLS; Primary students

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644917193     PISSN: 04250494     EISSN: 17548845     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-8845.2004.tb00774.x     Document Type: Article

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