SOCIOCULTURAL CONTEXTS C.CANCELLED
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
Published: April 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780805822564
Subjects: Literacy; Reading Skills; Teaching of a specific subject; Teaching of ethnic minorities; Usage guides; Study and teaching; Multicultural Education; Reading Education (General); Language Arts & Disciplines; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Social aspects; Language; Linguistics; Language and languages
First sentence: A teacher who grew up in Kentucky and moved to northern California, where she is teaching sixth-grade language arts, reading, and social studies, describes the diversity of her classroom: Samoan, Tongan, Hispanic students from Central America and Latin America; we have Russian children, and a lot from Fiji, Japan, of course, many from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Indonesia.