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  • Investigates the language learning, multiple literacy development, andschooling and community experiences of the Somali population in Minnesota - a community which is Muslim, refugee, and under-schooled
  • Brings togetherfiveyears of interdisciplinary research, drawing upon theories from the fields of applied linguistics, second language acquisition, education, and sociology
  • Uses a range of epistemological framesto explore central and contemporary problems that tie language learning to racialized, religious, and gendered identities
  • Argues for the centrality of socio-political contexts in language learning and for the integration of advocacy and research


Table of Contents
Series Editor’s Foreword.

Acknowledgements.

1. Engaged Scholarship in the Somali Communities of Minnesota.

2. Orality and Literacy within the Somali Diaspora.

3. Multilingualism and Multiliteracy among Somali Adolescent Girls.

Mogadishu on the Mississippi

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 22/10/2010
      ISBN13: 9781444338744, 978-1444338744
      ISBN10: 1444338749
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      • Investigates the language learning, multiple literacy development, andschooling and community experiences of the Somali population in Minnesota - a community which is Muslim, refugee, and under-schooled
      • Brings togetherfiveyears of interdisciplinary research, drawing upon theories from the fields of applied linguistics, second language acquisition, education, and sociology
      • Uses a range of epistemological framesto explore central and contemporary problems that tie language learning to racialized, religious, and gendered identities
      • Argues for the centrality of socio-political contexts in language learning and for the integration of advocacy and research


      Table of Contents
      Series Editor’s Foreword.

      Acknowledgements.

      1. Engaged Scholarship in the Somali Communities of Minnesota.

      2. Orality and Literacy within the Somali Diaspora.

      3. Multilingualism and Multiliteracy among Somali Adolescent Girls.

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