Challenges in english literacy for african-american and lankan tamil learners: Towards a pedagogical paradigm for bidialectal and bilingual minority students

Language and Education

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 15-37

  Suresh Canagarajah, A ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 84933480811     PISSN: 09500782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500789708666716     Document Type: Article

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