L2 student-U.S. professor interactions through disciplinary writing assignments: An activity theory perspective

Journal of Second Language Writing

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 40-58

  Fujioka, Mayumi ^a  

^a Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

Author keywords

Activity system network; Activity theory; Change and transformation; Disciplinary socialization; L2 graduate writing; Multi directionality of learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905637462     PISSN: 10603743     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jslw.2014.05.004     Document Type: Article

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