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From http://www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/display.asp?isb=185359878X

Language, Space and Power: A Critical Look at Bilingual Education

Author: Samina Hadi-Tabassum (Dominican University)

Key Features:
- covers theoretical issues around language, space, and power
- tries to provide an awareness of linguistic inequities in a dual language program
- focuses on a transcendental understanding of language
- uses an interdisciplinary, cultural studies framework
- implements an ethnographic methodology

Summary:
"Language, Space, and Power" describes the sociolinguistic and sociocultural life of a Spanish-English dual language classroom in which attention is given to not only the language learning processes at hand but also to how race, ethnicity, and gender dynamics interact within the language acquisition process.

For more information, visit http://www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/display.asp?isb=185359878X .
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