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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
Place, Publisher
Multilingual Matters

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.