Learning by doing: The objectification of knowledge across semiotic modalities in middle school chemistry lab activities

Linguistics and Education

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 225-243

  Wright, Laura J ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Multimodality; Science laboratory activities

Indexed keywords

EID: 50049122666     PISSN: 08985898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2008.06.007     Document Type: Article

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