Promises and problems of teaching with popular culture: A linguistic ethnographic analysis of discourse genre mixing in a literacy lesson

Reading Research Quarterly

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 40-69

  Lefstein, Adam ^a   Snell, Julia ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Article; Assessment; Childhood; Digital; Methodology; Motivation; Oral language; Policy; Strategies; Theoretical; Vocabulary; Writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651504399     PISSN: 00340553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1598/RRQ.46.1.3     Document Type: Article

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