Bilingual advantages of working memory revisited: A latent variable examination

Learning and Individual Differences

Volumn 32, Issue , 2014, Pages 168-177

  Soliman, Abdrabo Moghazy ^a  

^a TANTA UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Bilingualism; Children; Latent means; Working memory components

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899933920     PISSN: 10416080     EISSN: 18733425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2014.02.005     Document Type: Article

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