Bilingual students' ideas and conceptual change about slow geomorphological changes caused by water

Journal of Geoscience Education

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 54-66

  Martínez, Patricia ^a   Bannan, Brenda ^b   Kitsantas, Anastasia ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingual; Conceptual change; Earth science; Misconceptions; Reading; Science

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANGUAGE; PRIMARY EDUCATION; STUDENT;

EID: 84857391108     PISSN: 10899995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5408/09-145.1     Document Type: Article

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