Multilingualism and Dyslexia: Challenges for Research and Practice

Dyslexia

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 3-12

  Cline, Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEDFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Dyslexia; Learning difficulties; Literacy; Multilingualism; Reading

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING DISORDER; READING; RESEARCH; STANDARD; TEACHING;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MULTILINGUALISM; READING; RESEARCH; TEACHING;

EID: 0033649302     PISSN: 10769242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0909(200001/03)6:1<3::AID-DYS156>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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