Reading through linguistic borderlands: Latino students' transactions with narrative texts

Journal of Early Childhood Literacy

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 293-322

  Martínez Roldán, Carmen M ^a   Sayer, Peter ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Latinos as; linguistic borderlands; reading comprehension; Spanglish

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249158488     PISSN: 14687984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468798406069799     Document Type: Article

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