Guidelines for serving linguistically and culturally diverse young children

Early Childhood Education Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 147-154

  Green, Elise Jepson ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingual education; Early childhood; English as a second language (ESL); Language minority (LM); Limited English proficient (LEP)

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248771376     PISSN: 10823301     EISSN: 15731707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02353271     Document Type: Article

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