Maturation of executive functioning skills in early sequential bilingualism

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 111-123

  Kalashnikova, Marina ^a   Mattock, Karen ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

advantages of bilingualism; immersion education; metalinguistic competence; second language acquisition; sequential bilingualism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890426398     PISSN: 13670050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2012.746284     Document Type: Article

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