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Peer reviewedMonkman, Karen; MacGillivray, Laurie; Leyva, Cynthia Hernandez – Bilingual Research Journal, 2003
Interviews with an urban Los Angeles first-grade teacher and observations of her class illustrate how social and cultural issues are brought into the classroom, creating an environment in which students learn to "read the world," acquiring social and cultural literacy as well as the more commonly perceived personal literacy. When…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Classroom Environment, Cultural Literacy, Elementary Education
