Exploring bilingual pedagogies in dual language preschool classrooms

Language and Education

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 223-245

  Gort, Mileidis ^a   Pontier, Ryan W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

bilingual teachers; classroom interaction; codeswitching; pedagogy; preschoolers; teacher talk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877281464     PISSN: 09500782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500782.2012.697468     Document Type: Article

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