Pedagogical and socio-political implications of code-meshing in classrooms: Some considerations for a translingual orientation to writing

Literacy as Translingual Practice: Between Communities and Classrooms

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 115-127

  Milson Whyte, Vivette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

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EID: 84918878837     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203120293     Document Type: Chapter

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