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Not One Space for Y

Chawengwongsa, Lynn

I see Y reading the comments her teacher left on her paper. She uses Google Translate to add perfectly spelled words clarifying a detail about her grandmother’s aspiration to become literate. At least this is how I imagine Y to have prepared her college essay. I have not met Y. But I am certain that she never expected her writing to be the focus of a teachers’ planning meeting.

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Title
Studies in Applied Linguistics and TESOL
DOI
https://doi.org/10.52214/salt.v21i1.8386

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Academic Units
Applied Linguistics and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
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August 29, 2022