Social aspects and reading, writing, and working memory skills in arabic, hebrew, english, and circassian: The quadrilingual case of circassians

Language, Culture and Curriculum

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 27-58

  Abu Rabia, Salim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Circassians; Foreign languages; Quadrilingual case; Reading; Writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 23644458731     PISSN: 07908318     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07908310508668732     Document Type: Article

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