Immersion education and cognitive strategies: Can the obstacle be the advantage in a multilingual society?

International Journal of Multilingualism

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 186-206

  Maillat, Didier ^a   Serra, Cecilia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bilingual education; Code switching; Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL); Immersion; Integrated models; Metalinguistic awareness

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950701191     PISSN: 14790718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14790710902846731     Document Type: Article

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