Exploring how ESL teachers relate their ethnic and social backgrounds to practice

Race Ethnicity and Education

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 253-275

  Ajayi, Lasisi ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversity; Esl instruction; Ethnic social backgrounds; Poststructuralist theory; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; ETHNICITY; LANGUAGE; SECONDARY EDUCATION; TEACHING;

CALIFORNIA; LOS ANGELES [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79951714952     PISSN: 13613324     EISSN: 1470109X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13613324.2010.488900     Document Type: Article

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