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Peer reviewedBlackledge, Adrian – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1999
Presents a study of the literacy practices and attitudes of Bangladeshi families in Birmingham, England. Particular focus is on the extent to which the mothers of 18 6-year-old Bangladeshi children were able to support their children's school-related literacy learning. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Foreign Countries, Illiteracy, Justice
Direct linkBlackledge, Adrian – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2006
Research in multilingual societies often attends to the micro level of linguistic interactions, as linguistic minority speakers negotiate their way through a majority-language world. However, this research does not always engage with the social, political and historical contexts that produce and reproduce the conditions within which some…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Language Minorities, Sociolinguistics, Multilingualism
