Development of english skills need not suffer as a result of immersion: Grades 1 and 2 writing assessment in a Korean/English two-way immersion program

Language Learning

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 299-332

  Bae, Jungok ^a  

^a Kyungpook National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Coherence; Content; Criteria for scoring; Early learning; English only classes; Equal performance onset; FLES; Grammar; Korean English bilingualism; MANOVA; Narrative writing; Text length in writing; Two way immersion

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250332622     PISSN: 00238333     EISSN: 14679922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9922.2007.00410.x     Document Type: Article

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