Investigating pupil talk in multilingual contexts: Socio-cultural learning, teaching and researching

Education 3-13

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 223-235

  Conteh, Jean ^a   Kumar, Rita ^b   Beddow, Derek ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b Bradford Hospitals   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Action research; Bilingual teachers; Classroom talk; Groupwork; Numeracy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85060746516     PISSN: 03004279     EISSN: 14757575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03004270802217660     Document Type: Article

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