Language and the Learning Crisis: Evidence of Transfer Threshold Mechanisms in Multilingual Reading in South India

Journal of Development Studies

Volumn 55, Issue 11, 2019, Pages 2287-2305

  Nakamura, Pooja Reddy ^a   de Hoop, Thomas ^a   Holla, Chinmaya Udayakumar ^a  

^a AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LITERACY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS;

INDIA;

EID: 85050954634     PISSN: 00220388     EISSN: 17439140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2018.1493192     Document Type: Article

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