Supporting knowledge construction and literate talk in Secondary Social Studies

Linguistics and Education

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 167-199

  Kramer Dahl, Anneliese ^a   Teo, Peter ^a   Chia, Alexius ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Academic literacy; Classroom discourse; Knowledge construction; Literate talk; Macro and micro scaffolding

Indexed keywords

EID: 35748969282     PISSN: 08985898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2007.07.003     Document Type: Article

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