Talking about good and bad learners: Linguistic dimension of implicit theories of intelligence

Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 195-212

  Bernardo, Allan B I ^a  

^a DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY   (Philippines)

Author keywords

Entity theory; Implicit theories of intelligence; Incremental theory; Linguistic category model; Linguistic practices; Philippines

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863777124     PISSN: 16995880     EISSN: 16962095     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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