'It's easy to learn when you using your home language but with English you need to start learning language before you get to the concept': Bilingual concept development in an English medium university in South Africa

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 345-359

  Paxton, Moragh Isobel Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

African languages; Codeswitching; Concept development; Multilingualism

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950756675     PISSN: 01434632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01434630902780731     Document Type: Article

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