Early literacy in Arabic: An intervention study among Israeli Palestinian kindergartners

Applied Psycholinguistics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 413-436

  Levin, Iris ^a   Saiegh Haddad, Elinor ^b   Hende, Nareman ^a   Ziv, Margalit ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

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EID: 44949120617     PISSN: 01427164     EISSN: 14691817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0142716408080193     Document Type: Article

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