What is effective classroom dialog? A comparative study of classroom dialog in Chinese expert and novice mathematics

Wenjun Zhao1, Jing Ma2, Yiming Cao3

  • 1School of Mathematical Sciences, Sichuan Normal Univeristy, Chengdu, China.

Frontiers in Psychology
|October 10, 2022
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