Abstract
Defining literacy is a difficult task. Yet everyone knows what literacy is. Or does everyone? One of my favorite illustrations of what literacy can be at its best comes from Blanton’s (2002) recount of a classroom interaction in Casablanca’s American School between 5-year old Mira, who at home speaks Arabic and French, and her teacher, Marge, when Mira was drawing the story of “the day she was born”:
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Ortega, L. (2019). Foreword. Educational Linguistics. Springer Science+Business Media B.V. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26994-4_1
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