The role of proficiency and social context on the Grade-6 students' acquisition of French as a second official language in Canada

International Journal of Multilingualism

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 247-262

  Mady, Callie ^a  

^a NIPISSING UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

multilingualism; plurilingualism; third language acquisition; third language learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897629770     PISSN: 14790718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14790718.2013.859260     Document Type: Article

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