Spanish-speaking children's spelling errors with English vowel sounds that are represented by different graphemes in English and Spanish words

Contemporary Educational Psychology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 932-948

  Sun Alperin, M Kendra ^a   Wang, Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Cross linguistic; Minority learners; Spelling; Spelling errors; Vowel spelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 52749099170     PISSN: 0361476X     EISSN: 10902384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cedpsych.2007.12.005     Document Type: Article

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