The Impact of Bilingualism on Language and Literacy Development

The Handbook of Bilingualism

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 577-601

  Bialystok, Ellen ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Language development; Literacy development; Syntactic awareness; Word awareness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890709859     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470756997.ch22     Document Type: Chapter

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