Producing bilinguals through immersion education: Development of metalinguistic awareness

Applied Psycholinguistics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 177-191

  Bialystok, Ellen ^a   Peets, Kathleen F ^b   Moreno, Sylvain ^c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

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EID: 84898471892     PISSN: 01427164     EISSN: 14691817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0142716412000288     Document Type: Article

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