Who transfers more … and what? crosslinguistic influence in relation to school grade and language dominance in efl

International Journal of Multilingualism

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 113-134

  Navés, Teresa ^a   Miralpeix, Immaculada ^a   Luz Celaya, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

CLI; EFL; Language dominance; Multilingualism; Writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248693158     PISSN: 14790718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14790710508668380     Document Type: Article

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