Interactional patterns in Singapore's English classrooms

Linguistics and Education

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 366-377

  Vaish, Viniti ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Coding scheme; Dialogic teaching; English; IRE F; Patterns of interaction; Singapore

Indexed keywords

EID: 56449118252     PISSN: 08985898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2008.05.007     Document Type: Article

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