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  • Teaching and Learning in a Multilingual School

    Choices, Risks, and Dilemmas

    by Tara Goldstein, Gordon Pon, Timothy Chiu, Judith Ngan ...
    Series series Language, Culture, and Teaching Series
    Teaching and Learning in a Multilingual School: Choices, Risks, and Dilemmas is for teachers and teacher educators working in communities that educate children who do not speak English as a first language. At the center of the book are findings from a four-year critical ethnographic case study of a Canadian high school with a large number of emigrant students from Hong Kong and rich descriptions ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Asian Canadian Studies Reader

    Edited by Roland Coloma, Gordon Pon ...
    Series series Asian Canadian Studies
    Roland Sintos Coloma and Gordon Pon’s Asian Canadian Studies Reader brings together essential writings by leading and emerging scholars in the field to explore the vibrancy of the diverse Asian diaspora in Canada. The Reader is the perfect textbook for undergraduate courses in Race and Ethnic Studies, Women and Gender Studies, and Migration and Diaspora Studies.The volume is organized into four ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • No-No Boy

    by John Okada, Frank Chin ...
    Series series Classics of Asian American Literature
    "No-No Boy has the honor of being among the first of what has become an entire literary canon of Asian American literature,” writes novelist Ruth Ozeki in her new foreword. First published in 1957, No-No Boy was virtually ignored by a public eager to put World War II and the Japanese internment behind them. It was not until the mid-1970s that a new generation of Japanese American writers and ... Read more

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  • The Asian Mystique

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  • Reflections on Communicative Language Teaching

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  • Making Asian American Film and Video

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