Evaluation of bilingual secondary education in the Netherlands: Students' language proficiency in English 1

Educational Research and Evaluation

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 75-93

  Admiraal, Wilfried ^a   Westhoff, Gerard ^a   De Bot, Kees ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

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EID: 32944466831     PISSN: 13803611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13803610500392160     Document Type: Article

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