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Research Article

‘I feel like I have a superpower’: a qualitative study of adolescents’ experiences of multilingual identity development during an identity-based pedagogical intervention

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Received 26 Dec 2023, Accepted 29 Jan 2024, Published online: 07 Feb 2024

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