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2018
Volume 103, Issue 4
  • ISSN: 0360-9170
  • E-ISSN: 1943-2402
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Abstract

This piece explores using digital stickers to engage multilingual learners in joyful literacy-play, fostering creativity, translanguaging, and equity through inclusive, multimodal meaning-making in classrooms.

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