The development of bilingual children's early spelling in English

Journal of Educational Psychology

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 868-878

  Liow, Susan J Rickard ^a   Lau, Lily H S ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Biscriptal; Cross linguistic transfer; Early spelling; ESL children; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751001622     PISSN: 00220663     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-0663.98.4.868     Document Type: Article

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