Young bilingual children learning to read with dual language books

English Teaching

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 71-84

  Sneddon, Raymonde ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Dual language books; EAL; Mother tongue maintenance; Multilingual literacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 70449115718     PISSN: 11758708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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