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Rebuilding English from the Bottom up: Negotiating Basic Literacy with/for Working-Class Adolescents in Kolkata
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Fonken, Gael – TESL-EJ, 2008
This ethnographic reflection foregrounds the efforts a K-12 English-medium (EM) school in Kolkata is making to pull EM schooling more fully into India's multilingual ethos. By focusing on the special needs of a small group of struggling working-class girls, the successes of the majority of working-class students at this school become more visible.…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Multilingualism, Second Language Learning, Educational Change