"Are you human beings?" Order and knowledge construction through questioning in primary classroom interaction

Linguistics and Education

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 313-346

  Margutti, Piera ^a  

^a University for Foreigners   (Italy)

Author keywords

Audience participation; Classroom interaction; Instructional sequences; Preference; Questions

Indexed keywords

EID: 34047160914     PISSN: 08985898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2006.12.002     Document Type: Article

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