Transition to the first year of school in Singapore

Perspectives on Transitions in Schooling and Instructional Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 27-48

  Yeo, Lay See ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

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