General and specific benefits of bi-literate bilingualism: A Russian-Hebrew study of beginning literacy

Reading and Writing

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 269-292

  Leikin, Mark ^a   Schwartz, Mila ^a,b   Share, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b School for Gifted and Excellent Students   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bi literacy; Bilingualism; Central processing hypothesis; Cross linguistic transfer; Decoding; Hebrew; Literacy acquisition; Phonological skills; Russian; Script dependent hypothesis; Spelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950459212     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-009-9210-x     Document Type: Article

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