Understanding the "mmhm": Dilemmas in talk between teachers and adolescent emergent bilingual students

Linguistics and Education

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 213-232

  Kibler, Amanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Classroom interaction; Discourse analysis; Literacy development; Second language learning; Second language writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052028785     PISSN: 08985898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2010.11.002     Document Type: Article

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