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“Yeah, yeah, keep going!”: What is revealed about students’ reading competence, identity and agency when critical sociocultural analysis is used to understand classroom picturebook conversations

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Pages 20-36 | Received 29 Aug 2019, Accepted 04 May 2020, Published online: 04 Jul 2020

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