'Explain to your partner': Teachers' instructional practices and students' dialogue in small groups

Cambridge Journal of Education

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 49-70

  Webb, Noreen M ^a   Franke, Megan L ^a   De, Tondra ^a   Chan, Angela G ^a   Freund, Deanna ^a   Shein, Pat ^a   Melkonian, Doris K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classrooms; Cooperative group learning; Grouping

Indexed keywords

EID: 67651229102     PISSN: 0305764X     EISSN: 14693577     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03057640802701986     Document Type: Article

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