EXPANDING DEFINITIONS OF GIFTEDNESS: THE CASE OF YOUNG INTERPRETERS FROM IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES

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EXPANDING DEFINITIONS OF GIFTEDNESS: THE CASE OF YOUNG INTERPRETERS FROM IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES. Guadalupe Valdés (with Heather Brookes, Christina Chávez, Claudia Angelelli, Kerry Enright, Dania García, and Marisela González). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 2003. Pp. xxiv + 226. $65.00 cloth, $24.50 paper. As Valdés explains in the introduction, this book is about youngsters who carry out the very hard work of interpreting and translating when they are selected by their families to mediate communication between themselves and the outside world [and the] … skills that young interpreters develop in order to mediate and broker communication between members of majority and minority communities. (p. xvii)

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