The dual-focus approach to creating bilingual measures

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 206-218

  Erkut, Sumru ^a   Alarcón, Odette ^c   García Coll, Cynthia ^c   Tropp, Linda R ^b   Vázquez García, Heidie A ^c  

^a WELLESLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 0033460389     PISSN: 00220221     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022022199030002004     Document Type: Article

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