A Mandarin/English two-way immersion program: Language proficiency and academic achievement

Foreign Language Annals

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 661-679

  Padilla, Amado M ^a   Fan, Lorraine ^a   Xu, Xiaoqiu ^b   Silva, Duarte ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Pearson Knowledge Technologies   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic achievement; Elementary; Immersion; Language performance; Mandarin; Standardized tests

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890804351     PISSN: 0015718X     EISSN: 19449720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/flan.12060     Document Type: Article

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