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2018
Volume 114, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 0013-8274
  • E-ISSN: 2161-8895

Abstract

This article centers ninthgrade students reading and writing testimonios as a counter-storytelling technique, integrating their home cultures and languages into the classroom space.

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