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2018
Volume 71, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 0010-096X
  • E-ISSN: 1939-9006
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Abstract

Although scholars have studied migrant children who translate for their families, less is known about how these experiences matter for life-long literacy experiences. This article argues that child language brokers develop advanced skills in literacy and rhetoric from which they draw throughout their lives, in multiple contexts.

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