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Preliterate English as a Second Language Learners: A Case Study of Somali Bantu Women
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Shaughnessy, Colleen – Online Submission, 2006
The influx of immigrants and refugees with little or no previous formal education has made the investigation of English as a Second Language (ESL) literacy instructional techniques and methods a priority within the ESL professional field. The 2003-2004 resettlement of over 12,000, mostly preliterate, Somali Bantu refugees to the United States has…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Researchers, Females