Peer review among students of Spanish as a heritage language: The effectiveness of a metalinguistic literacy task

Linguistics and Education

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 70-82

  Jegerski, Jill ^a   Ponti, Estefanía ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Heritage language; Heritage language instruction; Heritage language writing; Peer review; Spanish

Indexed keywords

EID: 84898963982     PISSN: 08985898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2014.03.002     Document Type: Article

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