Orthographic competence among multilingual school children: writing Moroccan Arabic in France

International Journal of Multilingualism

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 196-209

  Weth, Constanze ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUXEMBOURG   (Luxembourg)

Author keywords

Arabic; family; French; orthographic transfer; primary school; writing acquisition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924916953     PISSN: 14790718     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14790718.2015.1009374     Document Type: Article

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