Peer talk as a 'double opportunity space': The case of argumentative discourse

Discourse and Society

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 211-233

  Ehrlich, Sara Zadunaisky ^a,b   Blum Kulka, Shoshana ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b BEIT BERL COLLEGE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Argumentative events; Children's discourse; Peer talk

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949505761     PISSN: 09579265     EISSN: 14603624     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0957926509353847     Document Type: Article

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