Growth in reading-related skills of language minority learners and their classmates: More evidence for early identification and intervention

Reading and Writing

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1159-1194

  Kieffer, Michael J ^a   Vukovic, Rose K ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Language minority; Longitudinal studies; Reading difficulties

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879780563     PISSN: 09224777     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11145-012-9410-7     Document Type: Article

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