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Lily Wong Fillmore  

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  • Lily Wong Fillmore is a noted sociolinguist and researcher of language minority communities and second-language learning. She attributes the genesis of her keen and lifelong interest in the role of language in schooling to her childhood as an English learner and 12 years of volunteer work with migrant workers. [Source: Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education; Wong Fillmore, Lily (1934-)]

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