Oral narrative genres as dialogic resources for classroom literature study: A contextualized case study of conversational narrative discussion

American Educational Research Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1111-1154

  Juzwik, Mary M ^a   Nystrand, Martin ^b   Kelly, Sean ^c   Sherry, Michael B ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

Dialogic instruction; Discussion; Genre; Literacy; Literature; Narrative

Indexed keywords

EID: 68049118351     PISSN: 00028312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3102/0002831208321444     Document Type: Article

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