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Chatting, cooking, curating : English language learners as sponsors of literacy in a multicultural literacy center

Creator:

Saleh, Natalie K.

Abstract:

Drawing on Deborah Brandt’s “literacy sponsorship,” this thesis examines ways English language learners (ELLs) in the Corvallis Multicultural Literacy Center (CMLC) act as literacy sponsors, sharing their expertise in language, textiles, and cooking, based on nine in-depth interviews with ELLs at the center. The findings of this thesis are presented...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis
Who We Are and Will Be

Creator:

Jackson, Linda Carol, 1949-

Abstract:

The protagonists in the fiction of Paule Marshall, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison illuminate American cultural perceptions of black women and illustrate how the creators of these characters hope to change those perceptions. I studied Paule Marshall's Daughters, Alice Walker's Meridian and The Color Purple, and Toni Morrison's The Bluest...

Resource Type:

Masters Thesis