Assessing the advantages of bilingualism for the children of immigrants

International Migration Review

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 721-753

  Golash Boza, Tanya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD; EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; LANGUAGE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 27644534336     PISSN: 01979183     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-7379.2005.tb00286.x     Document Type: Article

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