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Sandra Lee McKay

Researcher at San Francisco State University

Publications -  61
Citations -  10604

Sandra Lee McKay is an academic researcher from San Francisco State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Language assessment & Language education. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 61 publications receiving 10370 citations. Previous affiliations of Sandra Lee McKay include Brigham Young University–Hawaii.

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Multiple Discourses, Multiple Identities: Investment and Agency in Second-Language Learning among Chinese Adolescent Immigrant Students.

TL;DR: McKee and Wong as mentioned in this paper argue for a revision of code-based and individual learner-based views of second-language learning based on a two-year qualitative study of adolescent Chinese-immigrant students conducted in California in the early 1990s, in which the authors and their research associates followed four Mandarin-speaking students through seventh and eighth grades, periodically interviewing them and assessing their English-language development.
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Teaching English as an international language : rethinking goals and approaches

TL;DR: The authors discusses the cultural assumptions underlying much English teaching and suggests classroom aims and teaching methods based on the requirements of an international language, such as Spanish, French, German, and Italian.
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Sociolinguistics and language teaching

TL;DR: The Ethnography of Communication examines language attitudes, language planning and policy, and the role of language education in the development of languages.