Negotiating discourses: Sixth-grade students' use of multiple science discourses during a science fair presentation

Linguistics and Education

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 41-64

  Gomez, Kimberley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Multiple discourses; Science understandings; Scripts; Semiotic resources and formations; Teacher practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250331481     PISSN: 08985898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2007.03.002     Document Type: Article

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