Facing bilingual education: Kindergarten teachers' attitudes, strategies and challenges

Language Awareness

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 187-203

  Schwartz, Mila ^a,b   Mor Sommerfeld, Aura ^b,c   Leikinb, Mark ^a  

^a School for Gifted and Excellent Students   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bilingual education; Immigrant culture; Language awareness and strategies; Majority language teachers; Minority language maintenance

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650290776     PISSN: 09658416     EISSN: 17477506     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658416.2010.491919     Document Type: Article

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