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Publication Date: 1999
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Language-Learning: The Importance of Access to Community.
Toohey, Kelleen; Day, Elaine
TESL Canada Journal, v17 n1 p40-53 Win 1999
Discusses an ethnographic study that followed cohorts of English-as-Second-Language learners enrolled in mainstream Canadian classrooms in kindergarten through Grade 2. Examines classroom practices that appear to offer participants access to the linguistic resources of their community and those in which participants appear to have limited access to these resources. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Involvement, English (Second Language), Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Mainstreaming, Primary Education, Teaching Methods
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