Academic talk in American university classrooms: crossing the boundaries of oral-literate discourse?

Journal of English for Academic Purposes

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 117-135

  Csomay, Eniko ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corpus linguistics; Discourse analysis; English for academic purposes; Linguistic characteristics; Spoken discourse; University classroom context

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744919309     PISSN: 14751585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeap.2006.02.001     Document Type: Article

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