A multimodal approach to coding discourse: Collaboration, distributed cognition, and geometric reasoning

International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 253-278

  Evans, Michael A ^a   Feenstra, Eliot ^b   Ryon, Emily ^b   McNeill, David ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaborative learning; Communicative strategies; Coreferentiality; Distributed cognition; Early elementary mathematics; Gesture; Informal geometry; Multimodal analysis; Virtual manipulatives

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958269371     PISSN: 15561607     EISSN: 15561615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11412-011-9113-0     Document Type: Article

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