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Literacy as Cultural Practice and Cognitive Skill: Biliteracy in a Cambodian Adult ESL Class and a Puerto Rican GED Program.
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Hornberger, Nancy H.; Hardman, Joel – 1991
Two programs in which biliteracy is being actively developed among immigrant groups are examined within the framework of nine continua of biliteracy. One program is an adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) class for Cambodian refugee women, taught by a young Cambodian woman. It is assumed that the teacher and students, as members of an urban…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Cambodians, Cultural Context