Relevance of the linguistic coding difference hypothesis to english as an additional language of literacy in Israel

Current Issues in Bilingualism: Cognitive and Socio-linguistic Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 21-42

  Kahn Horwitz, Janina ^a   Sparks, Richard L ^a   Goldstein, Zahava ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

English as an additional language; Longitudinal; Phonological awareness; RAN; Reading; Spelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84984557753     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-2327-6_2     Document Type: Chapter

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