A functional approach to integrated assessment of teacher support and student discourse development in an elementary Chinese program

Linguistics and Education

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 22-38

  Huang, Jingzi ^a   Mohan, Bernard ^b  

^a MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Discourse analysis; Foreign language education; Integrated assessment; Integration of language and culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 63349084804     PISSN: 08985898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2009.01.006     Document Type: Article

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