Doing culture, doing race: everyday discourses of ‘culture’ and ‘cultural difference’ in the English as a second language classroom

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 80-93

  Lee, Ena ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

cultural difference; culture; ESL; identity; race; racialisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84911402579     PISSN: 01434632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01434632.2014.892503     Document Type: Article

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