The relationship between home literacy practices and developmental trajectories of emergent literacy and conventional literacy skills for Korean children

Reading and Writing

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-84

  Kim, Young Suk ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergent literacy skills; Home literacy practices; Korean; Literacy development; Preschool

Indexed keywords

EID: 57349117695     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-007-9103-9     Document Type: Article

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