"Going up there": Challenges and opportunities for language minority students during a mainstream classroom speech event

Linguistics and Education

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 81-108

  Bunch, George C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic language; Cooperative learning; English language learners; English learners; Language demands; Language minority students; Mainstream instruction; Middle schools; Presentations; Secondary education; Sheltered instruction; Speech events

Indexed keywords

EID: 65649145458     PISSN: 08985898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.linged.2009.04.001     Document Type: Article

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