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Diane Belcher and Ulla Connor, eds., Reflections on multiliterate lives. (Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, Vol. 26, Series editors Colin Baker & Nancy Hornberger.) Clevedon, England: Multilingual Matters, 2001. Pp. vii, 211. Hb $79.95, pb $29.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2002

Elizabeth Scheyder
Elizabeth Scheyder
Affiliation:
Educational Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, [email protected]
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Abstract

Many authors write books and papers about deficits in second language teaching and competence, shining a spotlight on what teachers are doing “wrong” or what students are lacking. In this volume, Diane Belcher and Ulla Connor set out to provide a model that bypasses these negative perspectives and showcases success stories in second (or nth) language learning. The result is a compilation of auto-ethnographies from 18 adults with successful professional careers who were asked to provide their “L1/L2 literacy autobiograph(ies)” (p. 209).

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Language in Society , Volume 31 , Issue 5 , November 2002 , pp. 786 - 790
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2002 Cambridge University Press

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