Translanguaging in the multilingual montreal hip-hop community: Everyday poetics as counter to the myths of the monolingual classroom

Educational Linguistics

Volumn 20, Issue , 2014, Pages 99-118

  Low, Bronwen ^a   Sarkar, Mela ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Creolization; Hip hop; Oraliture; Popular culture

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924781686     PISSN: 15720292     EISSN: 22151656     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7856-6_6     Document Type: Chapter

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