Weaving Language and Culture: Latina Adolescent Writers in an After-School Writing Project

Reading and Writing Quarterly

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 143-163

  García, Andrea ^a   Gaddes, Amy ^a  

^a HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84858602940     PISSN: 10573569     EISSN: 15210693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10573569.2012.651076     Document Type: Article

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