Iranian bilingual students reported use of language switching when doing mathematics

Mathematics Education Research Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 52-81

  Parvanehnezhad, Zahra ^a   Clarkson, Philip C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 77958592240     PISSN: 10332170     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03217469     Document Type: Article

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