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2018
Volume 47, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 0098-6291
  • E-ISSN: 1943-2356

Abstract

This essay explores how focusing on language and literacy as “ways of doing” in different academic disciplines and professional fields may spark reconsideration of how best to prepare and support students’ language and literacy development, especially among the linguistically diverse New Mainstream in community colleges.

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