Developing disciplinary literacy in a multilingual history classroom

Linguistics and Education

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 262-276

  Achugar, Mariana ^a   Carpenter, Brian D ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Disciplinary literacy; Functional approach to literacy; Multilingual learning contexts

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862726879     PISSN: 08985898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2012.05.003     Document Type: Article

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