Reading strategies and approaches to learning of bilingual primary school pupils

Language Awareness

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 243-262

  Rao, Zhenhui ^a   Yongqi Gu, Peter ^b   Jun Zhang, Lawrence ^c   Hu, Guangwei ^c  

^a JIANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bilinguals; Deep approach; Reading strategies; Surface approach; Young learners

Indexed keywords

EID: 57749157562     PISSN: 09658416     EISSN: 17477506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2167/la423.0     Document Type: Article

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