Failure to thrive? The community literacy strand of the Additive Bilingual Project at an Eastern Cape Community School, South Africa

Journal of Research in Reading

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 80-96

  Hunt, George ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33846616336     PISSN: 01410423     EISSN: 14679817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9817.2006.00327.x     Document Type: Article

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