Working multimodally: Challenges for assessment

English Teaching

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 70-90

  Wyatt Smith, Claire ^a   Kimber, Kay ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assessment; Digital literacy; Multimodalities

Indexed keywords

EID: 77049090851     PISSN: 11758708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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