"Muddying the clear waters": Teachers' take-up of the linguistic idea of revoicing

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 268-277

  Herbel Eisenmann, Beth ^a   Drake, Corey ^b   Cirillo, Michelle ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Language practices; Qualitative research; Revoicing; Study groups; Teacher professional development; Teacher's sense making

Indexed keywords

EID: 59349111092     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2008.07.004     Document Type: Article

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