Opportunities to talk science in a high school chemistry classroom

Research in Science Education

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 319-339

  Bleicher, Robert E ^a   Tobin, Kenneth G ^b   McRobbie, Campbell J ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chemistry teaching; Classroom discourse; Interactional sociolinguistics; Social semiotics

Indexed keywords

EID: 4344563381     PISSN: 0157244X     EISSN: 15731898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025480311414     Document Type: Article

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