Bilingualism, biliteracy, and learning to read: Interactions among languages and writing systems

Scientific Studies of Reading

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 43-61

  Bialystok, Ellen ^a   Luk, Gigi ^a   Kwan, Ernest ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 13844281794     PISSN: 10888438     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s1532799xssr0901_4     Document Type: Article

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