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LANGUAGE, SPACE AND POWER: A CRITICAL LOOK AT BILINGUAL EDUCATION, Samina Hadi-Tabassum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2007

Elizabeth Skinner
Elizabeth Skinner
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Chicago State University
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LANGUAGE, SPACE AND POWER: A CRITICAL LOOK AT BILINGUAL EDUCATION.Samina Hadi-Tabassum. Clevedon, UK: Multilingual Matters, 2006. Pp. v + 295. $50.55 paper.

As a former bilingual teacher in a dual-language school in Chicago, I approached Hadi-Tabassum's work not only with interest but with an insider's perspective on dual-language instruction. As promised, the volume provides rich descriptions of a fifth-grade dual-language classroom and documents key events that occurred throughout the school year. Situated within a discussion of language, space, and power, the author's quest for evidence of metalinguistic awareness in the context of classroom events is an ambitious project, but, at times, the framework overshadows a more practical interpretation of classroom life.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , December 2007 , pp. 630 - 631
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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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