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Download full textWells, Gordon – 1993
In a discussion of the role of language in education, education is viewed as a semiotic apprenticeship, or opportunity to gain the cultural tools and practices for meaning-making in construction of knowledge. This process occurs through guided participation in discipline-based forms of inquiry. In this enterprise, language is seen as having a…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Feedback, Foreign Countries, Inquiry
