Teaching creative writing skills to primary school children in Hong Kong: Discordance between the views and practices of language teachers

Journal of Creative Behavior

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 77-98

  Cheung, Wai Ming ^b   Tse, Shek Kam ^b   Tsang, Hector W H ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b NONE

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EID: 7444265789     PISSN: 00220175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2162-6057.2003.tb00827.x     Document Type: Article

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