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The multilingual classroom — diversity, errors, difficulties and disorders
Why the syllabus treats many languages in one room as a resource rather than a problem, how a child moves from the home language to the school's, the difference between an error, a difficulty and a disorder — and what a class teacher may and may not do about each.
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