Strategic codeswitching, interliteracy, and other phenomena of emergent bilingual writing: Lessons from first grade dual language classrooms

Journal of Early Childhood Literacy

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 323-354

  Gort, Mileidis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

bilingualism; biliteracy; dual language education; emergent writing; process writing; two way immersion

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249148025     PISSN: 14687984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1468798406069796     Document Type: Article

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