Bilingual teachers speak about the literacy instruction of bilingual Latino students

Teaching Reading: Effective Schools, Accomplished Teachers

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 335-357

  Barrera, Rosalinda B ^a   Jiménez, Robert T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410612489-23     Document Type: Chapter

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