Project-based community language learning: Three narratives of multilingual story-telling in early childhood education

Canadian Modern Language Review

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 125-145

  Lotherington, Heather ^a   Holland, Michelle ^a   Sotoudeh, Shiva ^a   Zentena, Mike ^a  

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Author keywords

Early childhood education; Elementary education; Multilingual education; Multiliteracies; Narratives

Indexed keywords

EID: 57849157073     PISSN: 00084506     EISSN: 17101131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/cmlr.65.1.125     Document Type: Article

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