Sociocultural Contexts of Language and Literacy
Contributors: Bertha Perez (Editor); T. L. McCarty (Editor)
Publisher: Lea
Published: December 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 354
ISBN-13: 9780805822571
Subjects: Language teaching theory & methods; Literacy; Teaching of a specific subject; Usage guides; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Language Arts & Disciplines; Language; Study and teaching; Reading Skills; Linguistics; Language and languages; Social aspects
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.