The influences of language of literacy instruction and vocabulary on the spelling of Spanish-English bilinguals

Reading and Writing

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 627-642

  Rolla San Francisco, Andrea ^a   Mo, Elaine ^a   Carlo, María ^b   August, Diane ^c   Snow, Catherine ^a  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingual literacy development; Language of instruction; Orthography; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745896520     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-006-9012-3     Document Type: Article

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