Emergent literacy performance across two languages: Assessing four-year-old bilingual children

International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 526-543

  Westerveld, Marleen F ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

bilingual; emergent literacy; Samoan; story comprehension; story retelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906352539     PISSN: 13670050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13670050.2013.835302     Document Type: Article

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