Immigrant parents' and teachers' views on bilingual preschool language policy

Language and Education

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 22-43

  Schwartz, Mila ^a,b  

^a School for Gifted and Excellent Students   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

'First Language First' approach; bilingual education; family language ideology; language ratio; teachers' language policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871259755     PISSN: 09500782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500782.2012.673626     Document Type: Article

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