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2021 Northeast Section Meeting

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solving skills” (Alcalet al., 2018, p. 137),but if there is no symmetrical relation , or what Baoler (2008) refers to as “relational equity”, then it is difficult to achieve joint activity. In thisstudy we report on a research conducted with multilingual young people from Black and Brown communities residing in SouthcoastMassachusetts. The study is based on a larger longitudinal research which examined the relationship between language and science andengineering identity development among middle school students from multilingual Black and Brown communities (also known as Englishlanguage learners). Drawing on qualitative methods of data collection and analysis, such as video recordings of the classroom events,interviews with students, and