Doeswriting contribute to improving high school students' approach to literature?

L1 Educational Studies in Language and Literature

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 197-224

  Boscolo, Pietro ^a   Carotti, Laura ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Scientific Lyceum Filippo Buonarroti   (Italy)

Author keywords

Response to literature; Writing; Writing to learn

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645952770     PISSN: 15676617     EISSN: 15731731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/b:esll.0000003685.30925.c4     Document Type: Article

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