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This chapter examines traditional perspectives on code switching, and it argues for a new perspective on the practice that emphasizes its relation to the ambitious educational goal of promoting a fully bilingual fluency and literacy for Latinx students and others.

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  1. Department of English, Pace High School, Brownsville, TX, USA

    José Cano

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  1. University of California - Merced, Merced, CA, USA

    Iris D. Ruiz

  2. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Raúl Sánchez

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Cano, J. (2016). Code Switching. In: Ruiz, I.D., Sánchez, R. (eds) Decolonizing Rhetoric and Composition Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52724-0_5

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