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Ruby, Mahera, Gregory, Eve E., Kenner, Charmian and Al-Azami, Salman. 2010. Grandmothers as orchestrators of early language and literacy lessons. In: Vally Lytra and Peter Martin , eds. Sites of Multilingualism: Complementary Schools in Britain Today. Stoke on Trent: Trentham Books, pp. 57-68. ISBN 978-1-85856-454-8 [Book Section]

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This chapter discusses how a grandmother in the British Bangladeshi community of Tower Hamlets, East London, enables all the children in her home-based Bengali class to play a role in the lesson. This unique intergenerational relationship has been largely absent from previous research studies.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	intergenerational learning, home learning, community languages, grandparents, Bengali
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Educational Studies > Centre for Language, Culture and Learning
Item ID:	4526
Date Deposited:	23 Nov 2010 14:36
Last Modified:	08 Apr 2013 11:51
URI:	http://eprints.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/4526

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