Publications

Publication details [#39779]

Rowell, Patricia M. and Margaretha Ebbers. 2004. Constructing Explanations of Flight: A Study of Instructional Discourse in Primary Science. Language & Education 18 (3) : 264–280.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

explanation | instructing1 | primary school | scientific language

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper investigates the instructional discourse of science lessons in two primary classrooms regarding explanations of bird adaptations for flight and describes how teachers support student construction of explanations.