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Brock, Cynthia H. – Urban Education, 2007
This investigation is an ethnographic case study of the literacy learning opportunities of a fifth-grade Hmong child (pseudonym Deng) who came to the United States from Laos via Thailand at the very end of his third-grade year in school. Deng was one of 25 students in a mainstream urban classroom in the Midwest during his fifth grade in school…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 5, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Brock, Cynthia H. – Reading and Writing Quarterly: Overcoming Learning Difficulties, 2000
Focuses on the role played by a cultural and linguistic mediator in helping to elucidate the literacy learning opportunities of a Hmong child in that child's fifth-grade mainstream classroom. Notes important implications for working with second language children in mainstream classrooms and for the educative potential of viewing sessions when…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cultural Differences, English (Second Language), Grade 5