More than just jargon - the nature and role of specialist language in learning disciplinary knowledge

Journal of English for Academic Purposes

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 234-249

  Woodward Kron, Robyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Academic discourse; Academic writing; Systemic functional linguistics; Technicality; Writing to learn

Indexed keywords

EID: 56649100469     PISSN: 14751585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jeap.2008.10.004     Document Type: Article

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