The effect of immigration, acculturation and multicompetence on personality profiles of Israeli multilinguals

International Journal of Bilingualism

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 203-221

  Dewaele, Jean Marc ^a   Stavans, Anat ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b BEIT BERL COLLEGE   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Acculturation; multicompetence; multiculturalism; multilingualism; personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900498745     PISSN: 13670069     EISSN: 17566878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1367006912439941     Document Type: Article

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