Pupils' attitudes towards foreign-language learning and the development of literacy skills in bilingual education

Teaching and Teacher Education

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 226-235

  Merisuo Storm, Tuula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bilingual education; Content and language integrated learning (CLIL); Learning attitudes; Literacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845495627     PISSN: 0742051X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tate.2006.04.024     Document Type: Article

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