Attitudes and approaches to literacy in Scottish Chinese families

Language and Education

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 355-373

  Hancock, Andy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Character learning; Chinese language; Chinese parents; Home school policy; Multilingual literacies; Multilingual Scotland

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750368298     PISSN: 09500782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2167/le641.0     Document Type: Article

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