Unpacking the "C" in CLA: Enacting Our Commitment to Linguistic Access, Asset, and Agency.
In this article, I consider what the word "critical" means when it comes to approaches to language difference in the teaching of writing. Drawing on decades of scholarship in Critical Language Awareness (CLA) and related lines of inquiry, I highlight three values at the heart of criticality: access,...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Multilingual Theories & Practices Vol. 6; no. 2; pp. 122 - 147 |
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University of Toronto Press
Oct2025
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