Insights Into Biliteracy Development: Toward a Bidirectional Theory of Bilingual Pedagogy

Journal of Hispanic Higher Education

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 171-186

  Dworin, Joel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

bilingual pedagogy; biliteracy; literate competencies

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750858724     PISSN: 15381927     EISSN: 15525716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1538192702250621     Document Type: Article

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