Mathematics and science teachers' beliefs and practices regarding the teaching of language in content learning

Language Teaching Research

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 325-342

  Tan, May ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

content based instruction; content based language teaching (CBLT); English language learners; language teachers; mathematics and science instruction; teacher beliefs

Indexed keywords

EID: 79958822590     PISSN: 13621688     EISSN: 14770954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362168811401153     Document Type: Article

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