Guiding lights: Siblings as literacy teachers in a multilingual community

Portraits of Literacy Across Families Communities and Schools: Intersections and Tensions

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 21-39

  Gregory, Eve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781410612830     Document Type: Chapter

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