An academic standoff: Literacy task preferences of African American and Mexican American male adolescents versus teacher-expected preferences

Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 28-39

  Orange, Carolyn ^a   Horowitz, Rosalind ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b NONE

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