Adolescent ESL students' interpretation and appreciation of literary texts: A case study of multimodality

Canadian Modern Language Review

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 377-397

  Early, Margaret ^a   Marshall, Sondra ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b Lord Byng Secondary School   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Literature; Multilingual literacy; Multimodality

Indexed keywords

EID: 41849103456     PISSN: 00084506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/cmlr.64.3.377     Document Type: Article

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