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Classroom discourse and opportunities to learn: An ethnographic study of knowledge construction in a bilingual third‐grade classroom

Sabrina Tuyay University of California, Santa Barbara
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Louise Jennings University of California, Santa Barbara
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Carol Dixon Graduate School of Education, University of California, 1148 Phelps Hall, Santa Barbara, CA, 93106
Pages 75-110 | Published online: 11 Nov 2009

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