Gendered Identities and Immigrant Language Learning (Critical Language and Literacy Studies)

✍ Scribed by Julia Menard-Warwick

Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 226
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This ethnographic study of a California English as a Second Language program explores how the gendered life experiences of immigrant adults shape their participation in both the English language classroom and the education of their children, within the contemporary sociohistorical context of Latin American immigration to the United States.

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