Exchanging and countering points of view: A linguistic perspective on school students' use of electronic conferencing

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 85-98

  Coffin, C ^a   North, S ^a   Martin, D ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Argumentation; Functional linguistics; Language; Text based conferencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 58449099672     PISSN: 02664909     EISSN: 13652729     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2729.2008.00280.x     Document Type: Article

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