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Download full textDuffy, John – English Update, 1998
This article delineates a study which examines both the historical basis of Hmong literacy development (in the years before they left Laos) as well as the more recent history (since 1975) of a Hmong group that settled in northern Wisconsin. The article discusses the development and functions of literacy in the United States, particularly as…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Discourse Communities, Foreign Countries, Hmong People
