Student text-making as semiotic work

Journal of Early Childhood Literacy

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 141-155

  Mavers, Diane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Drawing; Dry wipe whiteboards; Multimodality; Semiotic work; Social semiotics; Text making; Writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 69949187602     PISSN: 14687984     EISSN: 17412919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468798409105584     Document Type: Article

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