Developing the foundations for dialogic feedback in order to better understand the ‘learning gap’ from a pupil’s perspective

London Review of Education

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 5-20

  Dann, Ruth ^a  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communicative action; Dialogic; Feedback; Interpretation; Learning gap

Indexed keywords

EID: 84954549785     PISSN: 14748460     EISSN: 14748479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18546/LRE.13.3.03     Document Type: Article

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