Parental involvement in language and literacy acquisition: A bilingual journaling approach

Child Language Teaching and Therapy

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 317-336

  Caesar, Lena G ^a   Nelson, Nickola Wolf ^b  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MARYLAND   (United States)

^b WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drawing; ELL; emergent literacy; language; migrant; preschool; Spanish

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907198388     PISSN: 02656590     EISSN: 14770865     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0265659013513028     Document Type: Article

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