Adolescents' metalinguistic reflections on the academic register in speech and writing

Linguistics and Education

Volumn 31, Issue , 2015, Pages 221-237

  Phillips Galloway, Emily ^a   Stude, Juliane ^b   Uccelli, Paola ^a  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Academic language; Metalanguage; Multi party discourse; Register awareness; Students' reflections

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942549711     PISSN: 08985898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2014.10.006     Document Type: Article

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