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2018
Volume 115, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 0013-8274
  • E-ISSN: 2161-8895

Abstract

A linguistically responsive approach to grammar instruction—in which linguistic diversity and collective meaning-making are promoted—is explored as a means of disrupting prescriptive grammar ideologies.

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