What is disciplinary literacy and why does it matter?

Topics in Language Disorders

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 7-18

  Shanahan, Timothy ^a   Shanahan, Cynthia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

content area reading; disciplinary literacy; reading

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856908510     PISSN: 02718294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TLD.0b013e318244557a     Document Type: Article

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