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Becoming a Student: Identity Work and Academic Literacies in Early Schooling
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Hawkins, Margaret R. – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2005
In this article I argue that both sociocultural theories and those that address academic literacies must be invoked to adequately understand language and literacy development in schools. Through exploring the histories, school lives, and viewpoints of two kindergarten students, I show how identity work negotiated in classroom interactions can…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Socialization, Emergent Literacy, Persuasive Discourse