Teaching and learning Chinese: Heritage language classroom discourse in Montreal

Language, Culture and Curriculum

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 189-207

  Curdt Christiansen, Xiao Lan ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Authoritative discourse; Classroom discourse; Heritage language; Internally persuasive discourse

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750297007     PISSN: 07908318     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2167/lcc314.0     Document Type: Article

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