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

Abstract

This article reveals the importance of pushing against English-only monolingual classrooms and urges practitioners to move toward language-inclusive classrooms, beginning with the use of multilingual young adult novels.

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