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Celebrate Our Mother Tongues

Source: Education Week

Educator and former U.S. Foreign Service officer Chris Livaccari discusses how Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue” inspired him to examine his own family’s use of language.

This entry was posted in Coming to America and tagged Arts & Entertainment, Culture & Society, Opinion, People on April 1, 2017 by Anita Hacker.

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