Home and community factors influencing bilingual children's ethnic language vocabulary development

International Journal of Bilingualism

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 541-565

  Dixon, L Quentin ^a   Zhao, Jing ^b   Quiroz, Blanca G ^c   Shin, Jee Young ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c The Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL)   (United States)

Author keywords

bilingualism; English language learners; ethnic language; heritage language; vocabulary

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870184736     PISSN: 13670069     EISSN: 17566878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1367006911429527     Document Type: Article

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