What Predicts Successful Literacy Acquisition in a Second Language?

Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1243-1252

  Frost, Ram ^a,b,c   Siegelman, Noam ^a   Narkiss, Alona ^a   Afek, Liron ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HASKINS LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

Author keywords

bilingualism; foreign language learning; individual differences; statistical learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880057385     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612472207     Document Type: Article

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