No rubric can describe the magic: Multimodal designs and assessment challenges in a postgraduate course for English teachers

English Teaching

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 26-41

  Yvonne, Reed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Assessment challenges; Designing; Diverse classrooms; Multimodal pedagogies; Teacher education

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350401136     PISSN: 11758708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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