" Words that hold us up:" Teacher talk and academic language in five upper elementary classrooms

Linguistics and Education

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 430-440

  Ernst Slavit, Gisela ^a   Mason, Michele R ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic language; Cultural capital; Elementary school; English language learners; Language minority students; Sociolinguistics; Teacher talk

Indexed keywords

EID: 82755194741     PISSN: 08985898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2011.04.004     Document Type: Article

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